Comparative study of cross-field and field-aligned electron beams in active experiments

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Jun 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988jgr....93.5823w&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 93, June 1, 1988, p. 5823-5844.

Physics

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Beam Injection, Beam Interactions, Electron Beams, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Space Plasmas, Debye Length, Earth Magnetosphere, Plasma Density, Plasma Interaction Experiment, Power Spectra, Space Charge, Spacecraft Charging

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Beam-plasma interactions associated with the cross-field and field-aligned injection of electron beams from spacecraft were investigated using a two-dimensional (three velocity component) electrostatic particle simulations. It is shown that the beam properties and plasma response can be characterized well by the ratio between the stagnation time and the plasma response time, which depends on the ratio of the ambient plasma density to the beam density, the beam width, the beam energy, and the spacecraft length. It was found that the beams injected across the field lines tend to lose their coherence after about one or two gyrations due to space-charge oscillations induced by the beam, irrespective of the spacecraft charging. These oscillations scatter the beam electrons into a hollow cylinder of a radius equal to a beam electron gyroradius and thickness of the order of two beam Debye lengths. Parallel injected beams are subjected to similar oscillations, which cause the beam to expand to fill a solid cylinder of a comparable thickness.

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