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Soft X-ray generation and its role in breakdown of air gap at elevated pressures

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Fast runaway electrons, which appear during the electric breakdown in an air-filled discharge gap under the action of a short-front voltage pulse, generate 525-eV photons from the K-shell of oxygen. This soft X-ray emission effectively generates new electrons in the region of enhanced field. The proposed mechanism may explain the fast streamer propagation and the formation of a diffuse discharge at atmospheric pressure.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Kozyrev, V.F. Tarasenko, E.Kh. Baksht, Yu.V. Shut’ko, 2011, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 22, pp. 26–33.

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Kozyrev, A.V., Tarasenko, V.F., Baksht, E.K. et al. Soft X-ray generation and its role in breakdown of air gap at elevated pressures. Tech. Phys. Lett. 37, 1054–1057 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785011110253

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