Abstract
The formulation and results of a 3-D discrete electron transport simulation are presented for the near-field of a laboratory E x B Hall plasma thruster. For a prescribed magnetic and electric field distribution in the near-field of a Hall thruster, a staggered leapfrog timeintegrating method is utilized to track electrons launched from a simulated cathode. Currently, inter-particle collisions are ignored though collisions with surfaces are treated, and field instabilities are disregarded. Statistics including spatial maps of the relative electron density and mean electron energy as well as electron energy distributions within spatial domains have been obtained.
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