Published February 1, 1962 | Version public
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Two-stream instability in finite beams

Abstract

The streaming instabilities of a finite beam of charged particles passing through a zero-temperature plasma are studied. It is shown that there are no eigenmodes associated with the instabilities. Nevertheless, by constructing wave-packet disturbances one is led to instabilities similar to those for a beam of infinite extent.

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©1962 The American Institute of Physics. Received September 5, 1961.

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