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A nonlinear theory is developed that describes the interaction between an annular electron beam and an electromagnetic surface wave propagating strictly transverse to a constant external axial magnetic field in a cylindrical metal waveguide partially filled with a cold plasma. It is shown theoretically that surface waves with positive azimuthal mode numbers can be efficiently excited by an electron beam moving in the gap between the plasma column and the metal waveguide wall. Numerical simulations prove that, by applying a constant external electric field oriented along the waveguide radius, it is possible to increase the amplitude at which the surface waves saturate during the beam instability. The full set of equations consisting of the waveenvelope equation, the equation for the wave phase, and the equations of motion for the beam electrons is solved numerically in order to construct the phase diagrams of the beam electrons in momentum space and to determine their positions in coordinate space (in the radial variable-azimuthal angle plane).
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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2002, pp. 384–391.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Girka, Puzy’kov.
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Girka, V.O., Puzyr’kov, S.Y. Nonlinear ineraction of an annular electron beam with azimuthal surface waves. Plasma Phys. Rep. 28, 351–358 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1469176
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