| Issue |
EPL
Volume 79, Number 3, August 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 35001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Physics of Gases, Plasmas and Electric Discharges | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/79/35001 | |
| Published online | 16 July 2007 | |
Interaction of short-pulse ultrarelativistic electron bunch with plasmas
1
Center for Applied Physics and Technology, Peking University - Beijing 100871, PRC
2
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics - Beijing 100088, PRC
3
Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation, Zhejiang University - Hangzhou 310027, PRC
4
Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum - D-44780 Bochum, Germany
5
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University - 637616 Singapore
Received:
30
April
2007
Accepted:
14
June
2007
Interaction of a short-pulse relativistic electron bunch with plasmas at different densities is investigated using cylindrically symmetric particle-in-cell simulation. The evolution of the bunch electrons as well as the background plasma electrons and ions are studied and compared for three different background plasma densities. Occurrence of large current peaks and turbulent small-scale plasma waves are shown.
PACS: 52.40.-w – Plasma interactions (nonlaser) / 94.20.wf – Plasma waves and instabilities / 41.75.Ht – Relativistic electron and positron beams
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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