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24 April 2019 Streaming instabilities in converging geometry
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Abstract
We present an investigation into counter-streaming electron beams converging towards, and diverging from, a single point in two dimensions, leading to two-stream and current filamentation instabilities, which have radial and azimuthal density modulations, respectively. Using a semi-analytical approach and numerical simulations, we find no evidence for the two-stream instability in this geometry, but show that the system is unstable to the development of current filamentation.
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Lucas I. Inigo Gamiz, Bernhard Ersfeld, Samuel R. Yoffe, R. Alan Cairns, and Dino A. Jaroszynski "Streaming instabilities in converging geometry", Proc. SPIE 11036, Relativistic Plasma Waves and Particle Beams as Coherent and Incoherent Radiation Sources III, 1103606 (24 April 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2524105
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KEYWORDS
Plasma

Wave propagation

Electron beams

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