| Abstract: | The effect of plasma loading in the field structure and dispersive characteristics of slow cyclotron waves propagated in electron beams is studied. A requirement is established for the maximum permissible plasma concentration at which a slow cyclotron wave can be used for collective ion acceleration. The degree of vacuum required for operation of an autoresonant accelerator is estimated.Moscow Radio-Engineering Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 34, No. 8, pp. 897–907, August, 1991. |
