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The Frequency Spectrum and Energy Content in a Pulse Flux of Terahertz Radiation Generated by a Relativistic Electron Beam in a Plasma Column with Different Density Distributions

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This paper reports on the generation of a directed flux of electromagnetic radiation with an energy content of 10 J in the frequency range of 0.2–0.3 THz at a microsecond pulse duration in a beam–plasma system. The flux is generated when a relativistic electron beam (REB) pumps electron plasma waves in a magnetized plasma column. In the described experiments, this fundamentally new approach to generate terahertz radiation was carried out at the GOL-PET facility in the conditions of varying the beam current density and the plasma density in the appropriate ranges of 1–2 kA/cm2 and 1014–1015 cm–3. From the comparison of the flux energy spectrum measured experimentally in the frequency range 0.15–0.45 THz with the calculated one obtained using the previously proposed model of radiation generation in a beam–plasma system it was shown that this process occurs through resonant pumping by REB of precisely the branch of upper-hybrid plasma waves. Mastering this new method to generate terahertz radiation opens the prospect of its use to obtain multi-megawatt radiation fluxes in the frequency range up to 1 terahertz and higher. For such a development approach the most promising beam for pumping plasma oscillations seems to be a kiloampere REB generated in a linear induction accelerator.

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Measurements of the spectral composition of the radiation was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 19-12-00250-P. The work of I.V. Timofeev was supported by the Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics “BASIS.”

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Arzhannikov, A.V., Sinitsky, S.L., Samtsov, D.A. et al. The Frequency Spectrum and Energy Content in a Pulse Flux of Terahertz Radiation Generated by a Relativistic Electron Beam in a Plasma Column with Different Density Distributions. Plasma Phys. Rep. 50, 331–341 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X24600051

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