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Caption: Figure 3.
Same as Figure
2, the total energy of beam (left) and tail (middle) electrons, both normalized to the initial beam energy
E
0, and the average energy of a tail electron (right), all at
t = 100τ
ql against
R = τ
D
/τ
ql. Simulation results for various values of the beam, plasma, and density fluctuation parameters are shown. Ranges for
are as in the text. For ω
pe
= 1 GHz we show Gaussian fluctuations with
n
b
= 10
5 (crosses) and
n
b
= 10
4 (squares), power-law fluctuations with indices 5/3 and 7/3 (triangles). Finally for ω
pe
= 200 MHz we show Gaussian fluctuations with
n
b
= 10
3 (diamonds).
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