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Stepwise voltage drop in the breakdown of low-pressure helium

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An oscilloscope has been used to examine the breakdown in helium in a slightly inhomogeneous field. There is a stepwise voltage drop, and there are three critical regions for this as the overvoltage increases from 30 to 100%. For overvoltages in the range 50–55%, step 1 with amplitude (0.7–0.8)U degenerates into a step with amplitude (0.3–0.4)Uo.

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  1. Lenin Dagestan University, USSR

    M. -R. G. Kishov, N. A. Akopdzhanov & A. Z. Efendiev

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  1. M. -R. G. Kishov
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 67–70, September, 1983.

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Kishov, M.R.G., Akopdzhanov, N.A. & Efendiev, A.Z. Stepwise voltage drop in the breakdown of low-pressure helium. Soviet Physics Journal 26, 832–835 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00891852

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