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Gases and Fluids

Experimental investigation of the gas discharge dynamics in a solenoidal magnetic field

S. V. Bobashev, N. P. Mende, N. A. Monakhov, V. A. Sakharov

Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: An electric gas discharge is initiated at the end face of a nonconducting cylinder between a central electrode coaxial with the cylinder and a ring electrode on the lateral surface of the cylinder. The axis of the cylinder and that of a magnetic coil wound on its lateral surface coincide. The dynamics of the gas discharge in a solenoidal magnetic field is studied by observing its position and shape and monitoring the variation of the thermionic center distribution on the surface of the ring electrode with discharge current and magnetic induction. The discharge develops in air at a pressure of 2 kPa.

Received: 02.04.2012

 English version: Technical Physics, 2012, 57:12, 1637–1640

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