Propagation and Defocusing of Intense Ion Beams in a Background Plasma
- 13 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 37 (24), 1613-1615
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.37.1613
Abstract
The effect of collective interactions between an intense ion beam and a background plasma is found to increase the plasma return current above that necessary for current neutralization, which eventually contributes to defocusing of the beam.Keywords
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