Relativistic electron beam propagation in the Earth's magnetosphere

Relativistic electron beam propagation in the earth's atmosphere- modeling results

Linear accelerators (linacs), capable of producing 5 MeV energy electron beams at 80 mA currents, are now down to a size that allow them to be flown on sounding rockets or balloons. This opens up new opportunities for atmospheric/ionospheric modification experiments where the mesosphere and thermosphere regions of the atmosphere can be perturbed down to 40 km altitude. In this paper beam propag...

Collective Ion Acceleration by Relativistic Electron Rings in the Magnetosphere

To Professor Arnulf Schlüter on his 60th Birthday Calculations are presented which show that the collective acceleration of ions by rings of relativistic electrons seems feasible in the polar regions of a dipolar magnetospheric field. The well known magnetic field of the earth is taken as an example and it is found that with rings of electrons of only 4 MeV initial energy, deuterons can be acce...

Chaotic electron dynamics for relativistic-electron-beam propagation through a planar wiggler magnetic field.

It is shown that the motion of an individual test electron in a low-density relativistic electron beam propagating through a realizable planar-wiggler magnetic field is nonintegrable and can become chaotic. The chaoticity, which is induced by the transverse spatial inhomogeneities in the wiggler field, poses limits on the wiggler field amplitude and the beam size for beam propagation and free e...

Electron density in the magnetosphere

[1] Observations of the electron density ne based on measurement of the upper hybrid resonance frequency by the Polar spacecraft Plasma Wave Instrument (PWI) are available for March 1996 to September 1997, during which time the Polar orbit sampled all MLT values three times. In a previous study, we modeled the electron density dependence along field lines as ne = ne0(Rmax/R) , where ne0 is the ...

Multidimensional electron beam-plasma instabilities in the relativistic regime