Simulated Formation of a Virtual Cathode Chain in a Conical Drift Tube


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Abstract

A PIC code was used to simulate the formation of a chain of several virtual cathodes in a conical drift tube with its diameter increasing in the direction of motion of the electron beam. Their spatiotemporal dynamics was calculated.

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A. E. Dubinov

Russian Federal Nuclear Center All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics; Sarov State Institute of Physics and Technology

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Email: dubinov-ae@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod oblast, 607188; Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod oblast, 607186

V. P. Tarakanov

Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences; National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)

Email: dubinov-ae@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 125412; Moscow, 115409

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