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A mathematical model is constructed that describes the development of the beam-plasma instability in a traveling-wave tube amplifier in the presence of a neutral gas. Steady solutions are derived for conditions of microwave discharges in a magnetized plasma-filled traveling-wave tube amplifier, and their stability is investigated. It is shown that the steady-state amplification regime may become unstable and change to the self-modulation regime. The relationships between the amplifier parameters at the instability threshold are obtained, and the frequencies of the excited ion acoustic waves are determined. The results of numerical modeling are found to agree well with the analytical results.
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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 29, No. 9, 2003, pp. 801–808.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Bliokh, Lyubarsky, Podobinsky, Fainberg.
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Bliokh, Y.P., Lyubarsky, M.G., Podobinsky, V.O. et al. Unsteady beam-plasma discharge: I. Mathematical model and linear theory. Plasma Phys. Rep. 29, 740–747 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1609576
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