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A nonlinear theory of the instability of a straight relativistic dense electron beam in a plasma waveguide is derived for conditions of the stimulated collective Cherenkov effect. A study is made of a waveguide with a dense plasma such that the plasma wave excited by the beam during the instability can be escribed, with a good degree of accuracy, as a potential wave. General relativistic nonlinear equations are btained that describe the temporal dynamics of beam-plasma instabilities with allowance for plasma nonlinearity and the generation of harmonics of the initial perturbation. Under the assumption that the resonant interaction between the beam waves and the plasma waves is weak, the general equations are reduced to relativistic equations with cubic nonlinearities by using the method of expansion in small perturbations of the trajectories and momenta of the beam and plasma electrons. The reduced equations are solved analytically, the time scales on which the instability saturates are determined, and the nonlinear saturation amplitudes are obtained. A comparison between analytical solutions to the reduced equations and numerical solutions to the general nonlinear equations shows them to be in good agreement. Nonlinear processes caused by the relativistic nature of the beam are found to prevent stochastization of the system in the nonlinear stage of the well-developed instability. In contrast, a nonrelativistic electron beam is found to be subject to significant anomalous nonlinear stochastization.
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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 30, No. 5, 2004, pp. 419–433.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Bobylev, Kuzelev, Rukhadze.
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Bobylev, Y.V., Kuzelev, M.V. & Rukhadze, A.A. Nonlinear theory of the collective Cherenkov interaction of a dense relativistic electron beam with a dense plasma in a waveguide. Plasma Phys. Rep. 30, 383–397 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1744948
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