Published November 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Current filamentation in high-current diodes

  • 1. Gosudarstvennyj Komitet po Ispol'zovaniyu Atomnoj Ehnergii SSSR, Moscow (USSR). Inst. Atomnoj Ehnergii

Description

Experimental data on filamentation of high-current relativistic electron beam in Kalmar-1 generator of relativistic electron beam (REB) are presented and possible mechanism of this phenomenon is considered theoretically. It is shown that experimentally observed multiplicity of REB division into filaments may be explained by current azimuth heterogeneit y, occurring in the cathodic plasma due to Rayleigh-Taylor electron instability

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Original title (Russian)
Филаментация тока в сильноточных диодах

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Fizika Plazmy
Journal Volume
14
Journal Issue
11
Series
Fiz. Plazmy.
Journal Page Range
1335-1340
ISSN
0367-2921
CODEN
FIPLD