Abstract

A hollow relativistic electron beam, drifting in vacuum, can be made to implode radially when a grounded conductor is placed on the beam axis. The collapse is the result of the change in the direction of the electric field relative to that of a freely propagating beam. The entire energy content of the collapsed beam is dissipated in the conductor.

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