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Nitrogen gas-discharge electron source with secondary-emission cathode

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A mathematical model of a high-voltage electron source with a secondary-emission cathode and anodic plasma is constructed. Nitrogen is used as the working gas. The model is based on a kinetic description of the physical processes in the source, approximations of elementary-process cross-sections are given, and calculations are performed in the 2.5-400-kV range. The need to allow for charge exchange and the reflection of fast heavy particles from the cathode is shown.

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  1. V. S. Boldasov
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  2. A. I. Kuz'michev
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  3. D. S. Fillipychev
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Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 510–520, April, 1994.

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Boldasov, V.S., Kuz'michev, A.I., Fillipychev, D.S. et al. Nitrogen gas-discharge electron source with secondary-emission cathode. Radiophys Quantum Electron 37, 319–325 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046033

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