Electron motion of an annular beam in a low-magnetic-field drift tube
- Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
- Science and Technology on High Power Microwave Laboratory, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi'an 710024 (China)
Foil-less diodes and annular electron beams are widely adopted in high power microwave systems, and the electron beam is usually constrained by a guiding magnetic field to pass through the downstream drift tube and beam-wave interaction region. The electron beam, however, will present obvious radial motion when a low magnetic field is adopted, which will prominently influence the beam transmission and beam-wave interaction. This paper focuses on the radial motion of the electron beam in a low-magnetic-field drift tube. A spatial period is demonstrated with methods of theoretical analysis, single-particle calculations, particle-in-cell simulations, and experiments. The results obtained with different methods show good coherency, indicating that the real spatial period of the electron beam can be predicted by a simple formula which is based on single-particle motion regardless of space-charge effect.
- OSTI ID:
- 22407934
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 21, Issue 12; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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