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Determination of plasma parameters with a probing magnetic field pulse

A. G. Russkikh^a, V. I. Oreshkin^ab, A. S. Zhigalin^a, G. Yu. Yushkov<sup>a

a</sup> Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk
^b Tomsk Polytechnic University

Abstract: An experimental technique for the determination of electric conductivity and temperature of plasma is presented. The technique is based on comparing the signals that are produced by a pulsed magnetic field in the circuits of two probes located within the studied plasma and outside of it. The proposed technique for the measurement of plasma parameters was tested experimentally in the context of measuring the electric conductivity and temperature of plasma flux formed in cathode spots of a high-current pulsed vacuum arc with a magnesium cathode.

Keywords: Technical Physic Letter, Plasma Parameter, Magnetic Field Intensity, Magnetic Field Pulse, Cathode Spot.

Received: 01.07.2015

 English version: Technical Physics Letters, 2016, 42:2, 223–226

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