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The feasibility of producing high-current, high-energy electron beams was studied for the application of nanosecond voltage pulses with amplitudes to 300 kV in accelerating gaps. The pressures of the gap gases (helium and nitrogen) measured from 10−1 torr to atmospheric. Experiments showed that the placement of two barriers in the accelerating gap significantly increased the electron beam current due to an increase in the burn time of the volume discharge under conditions involving significant over-voltage in the electrical field. Electron beams with energies of up to 250 keV and currents up to 260 A were obtained.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 7–9, February, 1992.
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Korolev, V.S., Mal'tsev, A.N. Production of high-energy electron beams in moderate and high-pressure gases. Soviet Physics Journal 35, 106–108 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00936859
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00936859