E. V. Oreshkin, S. A. Barengol'ts, V. I. Oreshkin, S. A. Chaikovskii, “Characteristic length and enhancement time of a runaway electron avalanche in strong electric fields”, Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Volume 38, Issue 13,Pages <nobr>17

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Characteristic length and enhancement time of a runaway electron avalanche in strong electric fields

E. V. Oreshkin^abc, S. A. Barengol'ts^abc, V. I. Oreshkin^abc, S. A. Chaikovskii^abc

^a P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk
^c Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The dependences of the length of exponential enhancement of the runaway electron avalanche on the electric field strength and air and helium pressure were calculated using the Monte Carlo method. The calculation results allow one to arrive at the conclusion that the length and time of the exponential enhancement of the runaway avalanche electrons decrease with decreasing pressure and atomic number of the discharge gas, provided that the electric field strengths are equal.

Received: 26.02.2012