Stability properties of a thin relativistic beam propagation in a magnetized plasma Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2018, EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Abstract: A self-consistent nonlinear hydrodynamic theory is presented of the propagation of a long and thin relativistic electron beam through a plasma that is relatively strongly magnetized. Such situation is encountered when the gyro-frequency is comparable to the plasma frequency, i.e. |e| ~ pe. In addition, it is assumed the plasma density is much bigger than that of the beam. In the regime when the solution propagates in the comoving frame with a velocity that is much smaller than the thermal speed, a nonlinear stationary beam structure is found in which the electron motion in the transverse direction is negligible and whose transverse localization comes from the nonlinearity associated with its 3-D adiabatic expansion. Conversely, when the parallel velocity of the structure is sufficiently large to prevent the heat convection along the magnetic field, a helicoidally shaped stationary solution is found that is governed by the transverse convective nonlinearity. The profile of such beam is determined from a nonlinear dispersion relation and depends on the transverse size of the beam and its pitch angle to the magnetic field. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

published proceedings

  • EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Jovanovic, D., Fedele, R., Belic, M., De Nicola, S., & Akhter, T.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Jovanović, Dušan||Fedele, Renato||Belić, Milivoj||De Nicola, Sergio||Akhter, Tamina

publication date

  • June 2018