Theoretical studies of the ion-hose instability in a plasma-focused free-electron laser

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/27.221117· OSTI ID:6338541

Whittum, D H; Hiramatsu, Shigenori ^[1]; Kim, Jinsoo ^[2]

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1. National Lab. for High Energy Physics, Ibaraki (Japan)
2. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla (United States)

AN ion-focused' relativistic electron beam traversing a magnetic wiggler is subject to a transverse two-stream or ion-hose' instability, resulting from the coupling of transverse displacements of the beam centroid to the slosh' motion of the (beam-focused) nonneutral ion plasma, and driven by the V x B' deflection in the wiggler field. The equations of motion are resolved into an inhomogeneous beam break-up' equation and asymptotic growth is computed in the limit of linear focusing. The effect of nonlinearities is assessed numerically with a distributed mass' model. As examples, the authors consider ion-hose growth ina UV FEL and microwave FEL two-beam accelerator.'

• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098; FG03-90ER81080
• OSTI ID: 6338541
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 21:1; ISSN ITPSBD; ISSN 0093-3813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BEAM DYNAMICS
BEAM TRANSPORT
BEAMS
DATA
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTROMAGNETS
ELECTRON BEAMS
ENERGY RANGE
EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS OF MOTION
EQUIPMENT
FOCUSING
FREE ELECTRON LASERS
HOSE INSTABILITY
INFORMATION
INSTABILITY
LASERS
LEPTON BEAMS
MAGNETS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NUMERICAL DATA
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
PARTICLE BEAMS
PLASMA INSTABILITY
PLASMA MICROINSTABILITIES
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
THEORETICAL DATA
USES
WIGGLER MAGNETS