Abstract
The response of electrons in a collisionless plasma to a fast-rising voltage step is investigated experimentally and theoretically. At small amplitudes the step generates a wave train, the leading edge of which propagates along the column at the long-wavelength electron plasma wave velocity. At large step amplitudes a fast burst of electrons is observed, with kinetic energy roughly proportional to the step amplitude, followed by a nonlinear electron plasma wave signal which shows solitonlike behavior.
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