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Pennington, J. S.

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THPAS083 Charge and Current Neutralization of an Ion Beam Pulse by Background Plasma in Presence of Applied Magnetic Field and Gas Ionization 3675
 
  • J. S. Pennington
    USC, Los Angeles, California
  • R. C. Davidson, I. Kaganovich, A. B. Sefkow, E. Startsev
    PPPL, Princeton, New Jersey
  
  Funding: *Research supported by the U. S. Department of Energy under the auspices of the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory.

Background plasma can be used as a convenient tool for manipulating intense charge particle beams, for example, for ballistic focusing and steering, because the plasma can effectively reduce the space-charge potential and self-magnetic field of the beam pulse. We previously developed a reduced analytical model of beam charge and current neutralization for an ion beam pulse propagating in a cold background plasma. The reduced-fluid description provides an important benchmark for numerical codes and yields useful scaling relations for different beam and plasma parameters. This model has been extended to include the additional effects of a solenoidal magnetic field and gas ionization. Analytical studies show that a sufficiently large solenoidal magnetic field can increase the degree of current neutralization of the ion beam pulse. The linear system of equations has been solved analytically in Fourier space. For a strong enough applied magnetic field, poles emerge in Fourier space. These poles are an indication that whistler waves and lower hybrid waves are excited by the beam pulse.