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Reasons for the slowing of recombination in a plasma bubble produced during irradiation of a target with a pulse from a XeCl laser

A. N. Tkachev, S. I. Yakovlenko

General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The formation of a long-lived plasma bubble near a metal target in a gas at atmospheric pressure can be explained in terms of a delay of the recombinational energy release in the electron gas.

UDC: 621.373.826.038:533:9

PACS: 52.50.Jm, 42.55.Lt, 52.25.Jm, 52.25.Kn, 52.25.Fi

Received: 27.11.1992

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1993, 23:2, 91–92

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