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Parameters of a Subthreshold Microwave Discharge in Air and Carbon Dioxide as a Function of Microwave Field at Different Gas Pressures

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Propagation velocity of a subthreshold microwave discharge in air and carbon dioxide is measured at various gas pressures and intensities of microwave radiation. At air pressures of 200, 390, and 738 Torr and carbon dioxide pressures of 390 and 750 Torr, the propagation velocity of the head part of the self-non-self-sustained discharge closely follows a quadratic power law as a function of microwave-beam intensity in the range from 4 to 16 kW/cm2, while decreasing directly proportional to the initial gas density. In the process, the discharge propagation velocities in carbon dioxide are twice lower that those in air at equal intensities of the microwave radiation. The temperature in the head part of the discharge in air reaches 3.5–5.5 kK, while that in carbon dioxide reaches 9–15 kK.

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  1. The possibility of achieving such plasma densities in filament discharges is corroborated by both earlier studies [4] and estimates obtained in our recent works [5] dealing with spectral broadening of Hα radiation in the experiments with methane gas.

  2. The figures show average values of velocity obtained in several (3–5) different discharges at a given radiation power.

  3. Overlap of molecular bands in the spectrum complicated determination of temperature in the discharges, and the results of these measurements will be refined at a later time.

  4. Brightness of small-volume filaments at high temperature can exceed the brightness of the rest of the discharge by 2–3 orders of magnitude.

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This research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 17-12-01352.

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Artem’ev, K.V., Batanov, G.M., Berezhetskaya, N.K. et al. Parameters of a Subthreshold Microwave Discharge in Air and Carbon Dioxide as a Function of Microwave Field at Different Gas Pressures. Plasma Phys. Rep. 46, 927–935 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X20090019

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