Properties of solitary electric potential hump in electron plasma

The properties of collective electric trap for electrons of charged beam are investigated theoretically. This electron beam propagates along magnetic field in cylindrical tube. It is shown that part of beam electrons are trapped in the system.

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Published in:Вопросы атомной науки и техники
Date:2000
Main Authors: Maslov, V.I., Stomin, V.L.
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Properties of solitary electric potential hump in electron plasma / V.I. Maslov, V.L. Stomin // Вопросы атомной науки и техники. — 2000. — № 3. — С. 128. — Бібліогр.: 4 назв. — англ.
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The properties of collective electric trap for electrons of charged beam are investigated theoretically. This electron beam propagates along magnetic field in cylindrical tube. It is shown that part of beam electrons are trapped in the system.
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Національний науковий центр «Харківський фізико-технічний інститут» НАН України
Вопросы атомной науки и техники
Вeams in Plasma
Properties of solitary electric potential hump in electron plasma
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Maslov, V.I.
Stomin, V.L.
Вeams in Plasma
title_short Properties of solitary electric potential hump in electron plasma
title_full Properties of solitary electric potential hump in electron plasma
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Stomin, V.L.
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fulltext Problems of Atomic Science and Technology. 2000. N 3. Series: Plasma Physics (5). p. 128 128 UDC 533.9.01 PROPERTIES OF SOLITARY ELECTRIC POTENTIAL HUMP IN ELECTRON PLASMA V.I.Maslov, V.L.Stomin NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics & Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine e-mail: vmaslov@kipt.kharkov.ua, fax: 38 0572 351688, tel: 38 0572 The properties of collective electric trap for electrons of charged beam are investigated theoretically. This electron beam propagates along magnetic field in cylindrical tube. It is shown that part of beam electrons are trapped in the system. In this paper the properties of collective electric trap for electrons of charged beam are investigated theoretically. This electron beam propagates with velocity Vb along magnetic field in conducting cylinder. It has been shown that part of the beam’s electrons may be tarpped by selfconsistently formed electric potential hump. This hump keeps these electrons inside the conducting cylinder. The dependence of width of electric trap on amplitude of its electric field is investigated. In magnetized, electron-plasma-filled conducting tube slow solitary structure may exist [1, 2]. During time interval of electron beam injection into a conducting tube an electric potential hump, ϕ(z), is formed due to the dissipative instability or Pierce instability development with maximum growth rate γ≈Vb/L . Here L is the length of the system. This potential hump can be transformed into a solitary perturbation on nonlinear stage of instability development. This potential hump could trap fraction of beam electrons during the time of potential hump formation. This paper is concerned with the properties of this kind potential solitary structure. We consider the case of the strong external longitudinal magnetic field, Ho→ ∞ . Then the electron dynamics is one- dimensional. We choose the initial perturbation in the form of electric potential hump of small amplitude and of width ∆z smaller than the system length. In the case of small soliton amplitude, ϕo (<< Te , here Te is the electron temperature), from the Vlasov equation one can obtain the expression for the velocity distribution function of electrons. Integrating the latter over velocities, one can derive the expression for the electron density perturbation in the second order of φo= eϕo/Te ∂zδn=∂tφ[y+(1-2y2)(1-R(y))/y]+ ∂zφR(y)+ +φ∂zφ[1-y2+(1.5-y2)(R(y)-1)], (1) R(y) = 1 + (y/√π)∫-∞∞dt exp(-t2)/(t-y), y=(Vb-Vo)/Vth√2 Here Vo, ϕ are the velocity and potential of the soliton. Substituting (1) in the Poisson equation, one can derive the KdV evolution equation ∂tφ[y+(1-2y2)(1-R(y))/y]+ ∂zφR(y)+ +φ∂zφ[1-y2+(1.5-y2)(R(y)-1)]- ∂zzzφ=0 (2) From (2) one can obtain the equation describing the space distribution of the potential: (∂zφ)2 = φ2R(y) - [1 + (2y2 - 3)R(y)]φ3/6 (3) From (3) and ∂zφ|φ=φo = 0 the expression for R(y) and Vo follows (similarly to [3]) R(y) ≈ φo/6, Vb-Vo ≈1.32Vth (4) From (4) one can see that, if beam velocity is close to 1.32Vth , the potential hump is approximately fixed. We determine roughly the soliton width from (3), (4): ∆z = (48Te/eϕo)1/2 (5) The soliton is the "hole" in the electron phase space. In the case of large amplitudes, eϕo/Te > 1 , from the Vlasov equation one can have the expression for the velocity distribution function of plasma electrons (without electrons trapped by a soliton field) f = fo[(u2-2eϕ/m)1/2+Vosign(u)] for |u|=|V-Vo|>(2eϕ/m)1/2 . Here fo is the Maxwellian distribution function. Thus one can derive the equation for the soliton shape (∂zφ)2 =- φ + (2/√π)1/2 ∫-∞∞dt (t-y)2exp(-t2){[1 + φ/(y- t)2]1/2 - 1} (6) From (6) the expression for the soliton width follows ∆z = [2eφo/Te(√2 - 1)]1/2 (7) From (7) one can conclude that the soliton width increases with φo . Hence, taking into account the trapped electrons is important. We assume for their density distribution the following expression nt r(z) = ntroexp [eφ(z)/Tt r]. Here Tt r is the effective temperature of trapped electrons. Using last expression one can obtain similarly to (7) that the width of soliton increases wi th amplitude growing. These properties of soliton and its amplitude dependences were observed in experiments and numerical simulations [1]. Similar electron trap has been observed in [4]. References 1. I.P.Lynov et al. // Physica Scripta , (20). 1979, p.328. 2. H.Tanaka et al. // Proc. of 9th Int. Conf. On Plasma Physics. Toki. 1998. 3. H.Schamel // Plasma Physics, (14). 1972, p.905. 4. I.K.Tarasov // VANT, 1998.