G. V. Ostrovskaya, A. G. Frank, “Evolution and structure of the plasma of current sheets forming in two-dimensional magnetic fields with a null line at low initial gas ionization and their interpretation”, Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Volume 82, Issue 4,Pages <nobr>69

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Gas Discharges, Plasmas

Evolution and structure of the plasma of current sheets forming in two-dimensional magnetic fields with a null line at low initial gas ionization and their interpretation

G. V. Ostrovskaya^a, A. G. Frank^b

^a Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg
^b Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: An analysis of the experimental data obtained by holographic interferometry in our work [1] makes it possible to explain most of the observed specific features of the structure and evolution of the plasma sheets developing in a two-dimensional magnetic field with a null line in a plasma with a low initial degree of ionization ($\approx$ 10$^{-4}$). The following two processes are shown to play a key role here: additional gas ionization in an electric field and the peculiarities of plasma dynamics in a current sheet expanding in time.

Received: 05.07.2011