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Distribution of local plasma parameters in a channel of the Hall thruster at two different types of discharge burning

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According to experiments, a jumplike repartition of the discharge burning takes place at some parameters of Hall-thruster operating. This paper presents results of probing measurements demonstrating the difference in the distribution of floating and plasma potentials, electron temperature, and electric-field strength in a channel of the Hall thruster at two different types of discharge burning. The measurements were carried out along the discharge-channel axis using Langmuir probes.

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  1. Keldysh Research Center, Moscow, 125438, Russia

    A. S. Lovtsov, D. A. Tomilin & A. S. Shashkov

  2. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    A. S. Lovtsov, D. A. Tomilin & A. S. Shashkov

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Lovtsov, D.A. Tomilin, A.S. Shashkov, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 17, pp. 60–68.

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Lovtsov, A.S., Tomilin, D.A. & Shashkov, A.S. Distribution of local plasma parameters in a channel of the Hall thruster at two different types of discharge burning. Tech. Phys. Lett. 40, 754–757 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785014090107

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