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

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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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  1. Russian Federal Nuclear Center All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics, 607188, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Russia

    A. E. Dubinov

  2. Sarov State Institute of Physics and Technology, 607186, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Russia

    A. E. Dubinov

  3. Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 125412, Moscow, Russia

    V. P. Tarakanov

  4. National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), 115409, Moscow, Russia

    V. P. Tarakanov

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Dubinov, A.E., Tarakanov, V.P. Simulated Formation of a Virtual Cathode Chain in a Conical Drift Tube. Tech. Phys. Lett. 45, 754–756 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378501908008X

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