Supershort avalanche electron beams in discharges in air and other gases at high pressure

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 37, Issue 6 PART 1, 2009, Pages 832-838

  Tarasenko, Viktor F ^a   Baksht, Evgenii Kh ^a   Burachenko, Alexander G ^a   Kostyrya, Igor D ^a   Lomaev, Mikhail I ^a,b   Rybka, Dmitri V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY OF CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RADIOELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Avalanche electrons beam; Nanosecond diffuse discharge; Runaway electrons

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE ELECTRONS BEAM; DENSE PLASMA; DISCHARGE GAPS; ELECTRON PATH; GAP REGIONS; HIGH PRESSURE; INHOMOGENEOUS ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOSECOND DIFFUSE DISCHARGE; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PULSEWIDTH; RUNAWAY ELECTRONS; SUPERSHORT AVALANCHE ELECTRON BEAMS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; PLASMAS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 67650333636     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2009.2016841     Document Type: Article

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