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Parameters of a supershort avalanche electron beam generated in atmospheric-pressure air

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Conditions under which the number of runaway electrons in atmospheric-pressure air reaches ∼5 × 1010 are determined. Recommendations for creating runaway electron accelerators are given. Methods for measuring the parameters of a supershort avalanche electron beam and X-ray pulses from gas-filled diodes, as well as the discharge current and gap voltage, are described. A technique for determining the instant of runaway electron generation with respect to the voltage pulse is proposed. It is shown that the reduction in the gap voltage and the decrease in the beam current coincide in time. The mechanism of intense electron beam generation in gas-filled diodes is analyzed. It is confirmed experimentally that, in optimal regimes, the number of electrons generated in atmospheric-pressure air with energies T > eU m , where U m is the maximum gap voltage, is relatively small.

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Original Russian Text © V.F. Tarasenko, 2011, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 444–457.

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Tarasenko, V.F. Parameters of a supershort avalanche electron beam generated in atmospheric-pressure air. Plasma Phys. Rep. 37, 409–421 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X11040118

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