Plasma Investigations

Instability of non-self-sustaining glow discharge following removal of ionizing beam

A. A. Kostylev, Ya. I. Londer, A. P. Terent'ev, K. N. Ulyanov, V. A. Fedorov

Russian Electrotechnical Institute Named after V. I. Lenin

Abstract: A study is made of the instability of a non-self-sustaining glow discharge after the ionizing source is switched off. With a view to elucidating the mechanism of this instability, the reduction in the gas density under the action of the discharge current pulse is measured and it is shown that this reduction is insufficient to explain breakdown by Townsend ionization.

UDC: 537.525

Received: 09.11.1978

 English version: High Temperature, 1979, 17:6, 963–967

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