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Experimental studies of the dynamics of dust grains in gas-discharge plasmas

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Results of the experimental studies of the dynamics of dust grains in the plasmas of an rf capacitive discharge and a dc glow discharge are presented. The dusty plasma of a dc glow discharge was investigated in both ground-based experiments and experiments carried out under microgravity conditions (on board the Mir space station). The pair correlation function, temperature, and diffusion coefficient of dust grains are measured in a wide range of the dusty-plasma parameters. Dimensionless parameters responsible for the microscopic transport of dust-grains in a gas-discharge plasma are determined. A nonintrusive diagnostic technique for determining the dust-grain charges and screening lengths under the assumption of screened interaction between the grains is proposed. This technique is used to estimate the surface potential of dust grains of different size in a gas-discharge plasma.

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    O. S. Vaulina, O. F. Petrov, V. E. Fortov, A. V. Chernyshev, A. V. Gavrikov & I. A. Shakhova

  2. Korolev Space & Rocket Corporation Energiya, Korolev, Moscow oblast, 141070, Russia

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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 29, No. 8, 2003, pp. 698–713.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Vaulina, Petrov, Fortov, Chernyshev, Gavrikov, Shakhova, Semenov.

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Vaulina, O.S., Petrov, O.F., Fortov, V.E. et al. Experimental studies of the dynamics of dust grains in gas-discharge plasmas. Plasma Phys. Rep. 29, 642–656 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1601641

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