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Nonlinear quantum theory of stimulated Cherenkov radiation of transverse electromagnetic waves from a low-density relativistic electron beam in a dielectric medium

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A nonlinear quantum theory of stimulated Cherenkov radiation of transverse electromagnetic waves from a low-density relativistic electron beam in an isotropic dielectric medium is presented. A quantum model based on the Klein-Gordon equation is used. The growth rates of beam instabilities caused by the effect of stimulated Cherenkov radiation have been determined in the linear approximation. Mechanisms of the nonlinear saturation of relativistic quantum Cherenkov beam instabilities have been analyzed and the corresponding analytical solutions have been obtained.

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    Yu. B. Bobylev & M. V. Kuzelev

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Original Russian Text © Yu.B. Bobylev, M.V. Kuzelev, 2012, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2012, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 522–528.

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Bobylev, Y.B., Kuzelev, M.V. Nonlinear quantum theory of stimulated Cherenkov radiation of transverse electromagnetic waves from a low-density relativistic electron beam in a dielectric medium. Plasma Phys. Rep. 38, 475–480 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X12050029

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