Home
For authors
Submission status

Current
Archive (English)
Archive
   Volumes 81-92
   Volumes 41-60
   Volumes 21-40
   Volumes 1-20
   Volumes 61-80
      Volume 80
      Volume 79
      Volume 78
      Volume 77
      Volume 76
      Volume 75
      Volume 74
      Volume 73
      Volume 72
      Volume 71
      Volume 70
      Volume 69
      Volume 68
      Volume 67
      Volume 66
      Volume 65
      Volume 64
      Volume 63
      Volume 62
      Volume 61
Search
VOLUME 71 (2000) | ISSUE 5 | PAGE 262
Dynamically stable electron bunches in beam interaction with an electromagnetic wave packet
PACS: .60.Bq, 41.75.Fr, 52.35.Hr, 52.40.Mj
Nonlinear interaction of electron beam with a whistler wave packet which effectively dissipates through collisions or wave leakage is studied. Independently of dissipation type and nature of waves, self-organization of beam structure leads to the formation of bunches continuously decelerated by waves. Strong dissipation prevents the phase mixing required for quasilinear theory and keeps wave phases in the packet correlated. Thus, dynamically stable bunches are present together with a plateau in the velocity distribution; asymptotically, wave emission by bunches is the main process.