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Experimental study of a saturated multipactor in crossed fields

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We propose an experimental scheme of and develop a method for studying a one-sided multipactor discharge in crossed fields in the saturation regime. Basic parameters of the discharge have been measured. In the experiment performed in a 3-cm wavelength band, the discharge develops in microwave fields with intensities from 8 kV/cm (near the lower threshold) to 20 kV/cm and became stabilized during at least a hundred cycles of multiplication of secondary electrons on the discharge surface. In this case, the maximum power absorbed in the discharge amounts up to 4 kW/cm2, and the corresponding density of the saturated-discharge current, up to 10 A/cm2. The measured time of discharge development is equal to 15–30 ns. These parameters agree well with estimating calculations based on approximate analytical models.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    E. V. Ilyakov, I. S. Kulagin & V. E. Nechaev

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 979–986, December 2009.

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Ilyakov, E.V., Kulagin, I.S. & Nechaev, V.E. Experimental study of a saturated multipactor in crossed fields. Radiophys Quantum El 52, 885–891 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-010-9196-x

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