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The diffuse and channel stages in the overvoltage breakdown of a gas gap

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An interrupted discharge has been used to examine the production of light in the breakdown of an overvoltage gas gap in air under conditions of E/p = 90–110 V/cm-mm Hg. It is found that there are two types of discharge, the type being dependent on the number of initial electrons: diffuse when there are many electrons and of channel type when there is a single initiating electron. The observed voltage-fall curves for the first type of discharge agree well with theoretical ones derived from the avalanche theory. A study has been made of the dependence of the delay time and switching time on the relative intensity of the illumination used to produce the initial electrons.

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  1. Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Division, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    Yu. I. Bychkov, Yu. D. Korolev & V. M. Orlovskii

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  1. Yu. I. Bychkov
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  2. Yu. D. Korolev
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, No. 9, pp. 45–49, September, 1971.

We are indebted to Dr. G. A. Mesyats for proposing the problem and discussing the results.

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Bychkov, Y.I., Korolev, Y.D. & Orlovskii, V.M. The diffuse and channel stages in the overvoltage breakdown of a gas gap. Soviet Physics Journal 14, 1198–1201 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826866

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