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On measuring the Debye radius in an unstable gas discharge plasma

B. N. Shvilkin

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics

Abstract: It is shown that at low concentrations of charged particles conditions can be realized in a magnetized unstable-to-drift plasma for which concentration perturbations are comparable to the concentration itself. The electron temperature is then determined by potential fluctuations, and the drift oscillation wavelength is of the order of the Debye length.

PACS: 52.20.-j, 52.25.Gj

Received: April 1, 1998

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0168.199805f.0575

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1998, 41:5, 509–510

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