Chaos and collective relaxation in galaxies and charged-particle beams [electronic resource].
Published
Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2003. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Both galaxies and charged particle beams can exhibit collective relaxation on surprisingly short time scales. This can be attributed to the effects of chaos, often triggered by resonances caused by time-dependences in the bulk potential, which act almost identically for attractive gravitational and repulsive electrostatic forces. These similarities suggest that many physical processes at work in galaxies, albeit not subject to direct controlled experiments, can be tested indirectly using facilities such as the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) currently nearing completion.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:fermilab-pub-03-148-a fermilab-pub-03-148-a
Published through SciTech Connect. 01/01/2003. "fermilab-pub-03-148-a" FT Bohn, Courtlandt; O'Shea, Patrick G.; Kishek, Rami A.; Sideris, Ioannis V.; Reiser, Martin; Kandrup, Henry E.