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Plasma

Expansion of a shock plasma in the accelerating field of a parallel-plate capacitor in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer

N. D. Semkin, R. A. Pomel’nikov, A. M. Telegin

Samara State Aerospace University

Abstract: We have solved the problem of expansion of a multicomponent shock plasma (initiated by an impact of a fast microprojectile against a solid target) to vacuum in the electric field of a parallel-plate capacitor. The results of calculations can be used in the development of a dust impact mass spectrometer for studying the elemental composition of micrometeorites.

Received: 14.03.2013
Accepted: 20.09.2013

 English version: Technical Physics, 2014, 59:5, 663–669

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