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Title: Steady states of a diode with counterstreaming electron and positron beams

Journal Article · · Plasma Physics Reports
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  1. Russian Academy of Sciences, Ioffe Institute (Russian Federation)

Steady states of a plasma layer with counterstreaming beams of oppositely charged particles moving without collisions in a self-consistent electric field are analyzed. The study is aimed at clarifying the mechanism of generation and reconstruction of pulsar radiation. Such a layer also models the processes occurring in Knudsen plasma diodes with counterstreaming electron and ion beams. The steady-state solutions are exhaustively classified. The existence of several solutions at the same external parameters is established.

OSTI ID:
22614079
Journal Information:
Plasma Physics Reports, Vol. 42, Issue 10; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2016 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-780X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English