The Influence of Primary Electrons on the Mechanism of Plasma Generation


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Abstract

It is shown that at high percentage content of primary electrons, plasma is generated due to the retention of ions in a potential well created by electrons and not due to the accumulation of secondary electrons in the region of a potential hump formed by ions.

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S. P. Nikulin

Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Ural Federal University Named After the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin

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Email: nikulin@iep.uran.ru
Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg; Yekaterinburg

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