EXCITATION OF LARGE-AMPLITUDE ION-WAVE WAKE FIELDS

被引:21
作者
NISHIDA, Y [1 ]
OKAZAKI, T [1 ]
YUGAMI, N [1 ]
NAGASAWA, T [1 ]
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[1] ASHIKAGA INST TECHNOL,DEPT GEN EDUC,ASHIKAGA 326,JAPAN
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.2328
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Plasma wake fields in the ion-wave regime have been excited by injecting ion bunches with a variety of shapes. An excited-wave amplitude (delta-n/n0) of up to 17% has been observed for a bunch falloff time less than the wake-field period. The large-amplitude wake wave damps out, along with oscillations of the wave envelope. A simple linear theoretical model is developed, which can explain most of the observed phenomena, except for the large-amplitude oscillations.
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