J. Squire1,3† and A. Bhattacharjee2,3 TAPIR, Mailcode 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543 Max Planck/Princeton Center for Plasma Physics, Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princet...

Introduction: The NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber Laboratory conducts a broad-based research program addressing near-Earth space plasma physics. The unique Space Chamber device (shown in operation in Fig. 1) produces large-volume, steady-state, spacelike plasmas with conditions scaled to match various ionospheric and magnetospheric regions of interest. The program includes basic research i...

In this paper, Newton Harmonic Balance Method (NHBM) is applied to obtain the analytical solution for an electron beam injected into a plasma tube where the magnetic field is cylindrical and increases towards the axis in inverse proportion to the radius. Periodic solution is analytically verified and consequently the relation between the Natural Frequency and the amplitude is obtained in an ana...

A plasma is an ionized gas in which some of the electrons are free rather than bound to atoms as in an ordinary gas. The behavior of a plasma is more subtle than the behavior of an ordinary gas. In an ordinary gas the dynamics is dominated by two-body collisions, but in a plasma the particles interact via long-range forces, and this interaction causes the plasma to exhibit collective effects. I...