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Measurements indicate a thermalization of a trapped electron beam. The resulting hot beam-plasma system is unstable for new waves. The succession of instabilities leads to a stepwise diffusion in velocity space of beam particles to smaller velocities.
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Wakeren et al. (1974) studied this question.
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