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PLASMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac80a7
Keywords
focused electron beam; plasma electron source; forevacuum pressure range; long metal tube
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This paper investigates the features of focused electron beam transport in free space at elevated pressures. The effects of beam accelerating voltage, operating gas pressure, and magnetic focusing on beam trajectory are explored, particularly on beam convergence and divergence angles. The results show that the divergence angle increases with pressure, and for pressures greater than 5 Pa, the divergence angle is greater than the convergence angle. The findings are applied to electron beam transport experiments through a long narrow metal tube.
We present here our investigations of the features of focused electron beam transport in free space at elevated pressures of a few pascals. We have explored the effect of the beam accelerating voltage, operating gas pressure, and magnetic focusing upon the trajectory of beam electrons in the crossover region, in particular on the beam convergence and divergence angles. It is shown that for the forevacuum pressure range of 2-5 Pa explored, a distinctive feature of the propagation of a focused electron beam with a current of up to 20 mA at an accelerating voltage of 10-20 kV is the difference in the angles of convergence (before the focus) and divergence (after the focus). Whereas at a low pressure of 2 Pa the divergence angle is smaller than the convergence angle, as the pressure increases the divergence angle increases and for pressures greater than 5 Pa the divergence angle is greater than the convergence angle. The results obtained were used in experiments on electron beam transport through a long narrow metal tube with a diameter of 5.8-9.2 mm and length of 10-30 cm. We show that for a 30 cm long tube of 7.5 mm diameter, the focused beam transmission can exceed 70%.
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