The nonlinear Landau damping and growth of electrostatic waves in an electron beam‐plasma system in a magnetic field has been observed experimentally. The space charge wave of the beam decays into the Trivelpiece mode, which is amplified exponentially by increasing the amplitude of the pump wave.
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