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A diagnostic method for determining plasma density from the dispersion of surface waves guided by a discharge channel in an axial magnetic field is discussed. The diagnostic characteristics that are the easiest to record experimentally are determined by analyzing the theoretical dispersion curves, and the ways of exploiting these characteristics for plasma diagnostics are suggested. To determine the slowing-down factor of a probing wave in a plasma channel, it is proposed to use diagnostic-signal resonances that occur when the wavelength of the slowed wave becomes equal to the length of the emitting or receiving antenna. The dependence of the plasma density averaged over the cross section of the plasma column on the strength of the external magnetic field is determined for a discharge channel formed as a result of the ionization self-channeling of plasma (lower hybrid) waves and whistlers.
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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 28, No. 12, 2002, pp. 1077–1085.
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Bodrov, S.B., Markov, G.A. Diagnostics of a magnetized plasma by the field of surface waves guided by a discharge channel. Plasma Phys. Rep. 28, 992–1000 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1528240
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