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Observation of the reactive component of Langmuir wave phase-bunched electrons

Authors :
Craig Kletzing
Scott R. Bounds
James LaBelle
M. Samara
Source :
Geophysical Research Letters. 32
Publication Year :
2005
Publisher :
American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2005.

Abstract

[1] Observations from a new wave-particle correlator show clear evidence of phase bunching of the electrons by a monochromatic Langmuir wave electric field which varied slowly in amplitude. The electrons are found to be bunched at 90° with respect to the wave field indicating that they are the reactive component of the perturbed distribution function. This is in agreement with theory that predicts this phase relation for the transit of electrons through a very long wave field.

Details

ISSN :
00948276
Volume :
32
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Geophysical Research Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........b3dd4274e87ec68a6f8dc790de75d4da
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1029/2004gl021175