A comprehensive description of the interaction between extremely intense particle beams and plasmas. The emphasis is on experimental beam-plasma physics, but the necessary theory is also explained, much of which is innovative and original. The discussion of beam instabilities is central, emphasizing their hydrodynamic nature. The present volume covers a considerably wider scope of problems and gives an updated and extended analysis of the phenomena described in the 1982 Russian edition, Dynamics of Beams in Plasmas (Moscow: Energoizdat). Translated from the Russian. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.