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The spectroscopic technique used to measure the parameters of the plasma jets generated in the plasma focus discharge and those of the plasma of the immobile gas through which these jets propagate is described. The time evolution of the intensities and shapes of spectral lines in experiments carried out with helium at the PF-3 facility was studied by means of electron-optical streak cameras. The plasma electron temperature, T ≈ 4–5 eV, was determined from the intensity ratio of two spectral lines, one of which (λ1 = 5876 Å) belongs to neutral helium, while the other (λ2 = 4686 Å), to hydrogen-like helium ions. The plasma density at different time instants was determined from the Stark broadening of these lines in the electric fields of different nature. The plasma density is found to vary from 4 × 1014 to 2 × 1017 cm−3.
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Original Russian Text © S.S. Ananyev, S.A. Dan’ko, V.V. Myalton, A.I. Zhuzhunashvili, Yu.G. Kalinin, V.I. Krauz, M.S. Ladygina, A.K. Marchenko, 2016, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 282–290.
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Ananyev, S.S., Dan’ko, S.A., Myalton, V.V. et al. Spectroscopic measurements of the parameters of the helium plasma jets generated in the plasma focus discharge at the PF-3 facility. Plasma Phys. Rep. 42, 269–277 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X16030028
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