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In experiments on confinement and heating of plasma in the Uragan-3M torsatron, the method of high-frequency breakdown of the working gas is used. In these experiments, in conditions of a relatively stable magnetic field, the rf power supplied to the setup chamber has a frequency close to the ion-cyclotron frequency. Such a method of gas breakdown is not always sufficiently reliable. In our experiments, preliminary ionization of the working gas by the run-away electron beam is used for stabilizing the breakdown. This work contains the results of experiments on enhancement of the runaway electron beam and on the interaction of the runaway electron beam in the Uragan-3M torsatron with the HF electromagnetic pump field. This enables us to formulate a number of recommendations for using spontaneously formed beams of accelerated particles for stimulating the rf breakdown. Our results confirm the possibility of gas breakdown by runaway electrons.
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Original Russian Text © I.K. Tarasov, M.I. Tarasov, D.A. Sitnikov, V.K. Pashnev, M.A. Lytova, 2016, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 55–60.
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Tarasov, I.K., Tarasov, M.I., Sitnikov, D.A. et al. Stimulation of high-frequency breakdown of gas in Uragan-3M torsatron by runaway electrons. Tech. Phys. 61, 53–58 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784216010229
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