An intense charged particle beam can be characterized as an organized charged particle flow for which the effects of beam self-fields are of major importance in describing the evolution of the flow. Research employing such beams is now a rapidly growing field with important applications ranging from the development of high power sources of coherent radiation to inertial confinement fusion. Major programs have now been established at several laboratories in the United States and Great Britain, as well as in the USSR, Japan, and several Eastern and Western European nations. In addition, related research activities are being pursued at the graduate level at several universities in the US and abroad. When the author first entered this field in 1973 there was no single reference text that provided a broad survey of the important topics, yet contained sufficient detail to be of interest to the active researcher. That situation has persisted, and this book is an attempt to fill the void. As such, the text is aimed at the graduate student, or beginning researcher; however, it contains ample information to be a convenient reference source for the advanced worker.

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1. Introduction.- 1.1. Background.- 1.2. Pulsed Power Technology.- 1.3. Qualitative Behavior of Charged Particle Beams.- 1.4. The Macroscopic Fluid Description.- 2. Intense Electron and Ion Beam Generation.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Electron Emission Processes.- 2.3. Electron Flow in High-Power Diodes.- 2.4. Ion Flow in High-Power Diodes.- 2.5. Summary.- 3. Propagation of Intense Beams in Vacuum.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. General Equations for Laminar Flow Equilibria.- 3.3. Space-Charge-Limiting Current.- 3.4. Virtual Cathode Formation.- 3.5. Laminar Flow Equilibria of Unneutralized Relativistic Electron Beams.- 3.6. Electron-Neutralized Transport of Intense Ion Beams in Vacuum.- 3.7. Electrostatic Stability of Intense Relativistic Electron Beams.- 3.8. Summary.- 4. Propagation of Intense Beams in Plasma.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Current Neutralization.- 4.3. Macroscopic BeamPlasma Equilibria.- 4.4. Macroscopic BeamPlasma Instabilities.- 4.5. Microscopic Instabilities.- 4.6. Plasma Heating by Linear Relativistic Electron Beams.- 4.7. Summary.- 5. Propagation of Intense Beams through Neutral Gas.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Beam-Induced Neutral Gas Ionization Processes.- 5.3. Neutral Gas Transport for Ib/Il IA.- 5.6. Summary.- 6. High-Power Sources of Coherent Radiation.- 6.1. The Relativistic Microwave Magnetron.- 6.1.3. Interaction of the Electron Space Charge and the rf Fields.- 6.2. The Electron Cyclotron Maser (ECM).- 6.3. The Free Electron Laser (FEL).- 6.4. Summary.- 7. Collective Ion Acceleration with Intense Relativistic Electron Beams.- 7.1. Introduction.- 7.2. Summary of Results for the Neutral Gas andVacuum Diode Systems.- 7.3. The Ionization Front Accelerator (IFA).- 7.4. Wave Collective Ion Acceleration Mechanisms.- 7.5. Summary.- 8. Particle Beam Fusion Concepts.- 8.1. Introduction.- 8.2. Pellet Implosion Criteria.- 8.3. Electron Beam Fusion Concepts.- 8.4. Ion Beam Fusion Concepts.- 8.5. Summary.