Production of dense cloud of oscillating relativistic electrons
Arzhannikov A.V., Burdakov A.V., Koidan V.S., Ryutov D.D.
The possibility of trapping an appreciable fraction of the electrons of a large-current relativistic beam in a plasma volume bounded by thin foils is experimentally demonstrated. The density of the accumulated electrons exceeds by more than one order of magnitude the density of the initial beam.