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Experiments to study the autocompensation of an ion beam are described. It is shown that in accelerators with an anode sheath and isolated collector, autocompensation occurs as a result of the excitation of an auxiliary non-self-sustained gas discharge.
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Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 23, 69–73 (May 26, 1997)
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Bizyukov, A.A., Kashaba, A.E., Sereda, K.N. et al. Autocompensation of an ion beam in an accelerator with an anode sheath. Tech. Phys. Lett. 23, 403–404 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1261696
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