• DocumentCode
    1214620
  • Title

    Growth of Harmonic Perturbations of an Electron Shell Orbiting a Positively-Charged Wire (Orbitron)

  • Author

    Alexeff, Igor

  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1984
  • Firstpage
    280
  • Lastpage
    283
  • Abstract
    The negative-mass instability of a cylindrical shell of electrons orbiting a positively-charged wire was studied. The harmonics of the orbital frequency are found to grow faster than the fundamental, with a growth constant proportional to the square root of the harmonic number.
  • Keywords
    Acceleration; Argon; Computational geometry; Electrons; Frequency; H infinity control; Magnetic fields; Permittivity; Testing; Wire;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.1984.4316340
  • Filename
    4316340