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Determination of the electron concentration and temperature, as well as the reduced electric field strength, in the plasma of a high-voltage nanosecond discharge initiated in atmospheric-pressure nitrogen by a runaway electron beam

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We report on the results of spectroscopic measurements of electron concentration N e and temperature T e , as well as the reduced electric field strength E/N in the plasma of a high-voltage nanosecond discharge in the gap with a strongly nonuniform electric field distribution, which is filled with nitrogen under the atmospheric pressure. The possibility of using the method for determining T e and E/N, which is based on the determination of the ratio of the peak intensities of the ionic N +2 (λ = 391.4 nm) and molecular N2 (λ = 394 nm) nitrogen bands, is proved. We detected the mean values of quantities N e , T e , and E/N amounting to ∼2 × 1014 cm−3, ∼2 eV, and ∼240 Td, respectively. In addition, the dynamics of these quantities is determined.

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  1. Institute of High-Current Electronics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademicheskii pr. 4, Tomsk, 634055, Russia

    D. A. Sorokin, M. I. Lomaev & V. F. Tarasenko

  2. National Research Tomsk State University, pr. Lenina 30, Tomsk, 634050, Russia

    M. I. Lomaev, T. I. Banokina & V. F. Tarasenko

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Original Russian Text © D.A. Sorokin, M.I. Lomaev, T.I. Banokina, V.F. Tarasenko, 2014, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2014, Vol. 84, No. 8, pp. 13–20.

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Sorokin, D.A., Lomaev, M.I., Banokina, T.I. et al. Determination of the electron concentration and temperature, as well as the reduced electric field strength, in the plasma of a high-voltage nanosecond discharge initiated in atmospheric-pressure nitrogen by a runaway electron beam. Tech. Phys. 59, 1119–1126 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784214080234

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