Dynamically stable electron bunches in beam interaction with an electromagnetic wave packet |
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Authors: | A S Volokitin C Krafft |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142092, Russia;(2) Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France |
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Abstract: | Nonlinear interaction of electron beam with a whistler wave packet that effectively dissipates through collisions or wave leakage is studied. Independently of the dissipation type and nature of waves, self-organization of the beam structure leads to the formation of bunches continuously decelerated by waves. Strong dissipation prevents phase mixing required for the quasilinear theory and keeps wave phases in the packet correlated. Thus, dynamically stable bunches are present together with a plateau in the velocity distribution; asymptotically, wave emission by bunches is the main process. |
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