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Evolution and structure of the plasma of current sheets forming in two-dimensional magnetic fields with a null line at low initial gas ionization and their interpretation

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An analysis of the experimental data obtained by holographic interferometry in our work [1] makes it possible to explain most of the observed specific features of the structure and evolution of the plasma sheets developing in a two-dimensional magnetic field with a null line in a plasma with a low initial degree of ionization (≈10−4). The following two processes are shown to play a key role here: additional gas ionization in an electric field and the peculiarities of plasma dynamics in a current sheet expanding in time.

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  2. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © G.V. Ostrovskaya, A.G. Frank, 2012, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 75–85.

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Ostrovskaya, G.V., Frank, A.G. Evolution and structure of the plasma of current sheets forming in two-dimensional magnetic fields with a null line at low initial gas ionization and their interpretation. Tech. Phys. 57, 495–505 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784212040226

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