Gas Discharges, Plasmas

Model of the stabilized distribution function for oscillating electrons in a hollow cathode

A. E. Dubinov, S. K. Saikov, L. A. Senilov

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Federal Nuclear Center — All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics", Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region

Abstract: The form of the velocity distribution function of oscillating electrons in a low-pressure discharge with a hollow cathode is determined using the simple model of mathematical billiards. The distribution function is nonequilibrium and permits the development of instability of the plasma beam type.

Received: 16.12.2011

 English version: Technical Physics, 2012, 57:9, 1199–1203

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