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Study of the direct current breakage process in an external nonuniform magnetic field

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We study experimentally the influence of an external nonuniform magnetic field with transverse and longitudinal components on the electric characteristics, plasma configuration, and cathode spot arrangement of vaccum-arc discharge. It is revealed that for a cylindrical cathode, cathode spots are nonuniformly distributed on the cathode surface, the spot configuration has no axial symmetry, and the arrangement of spots changes in time depending on the induction value of the external pulsed magnetic field. With an increase in induction, spots (on average) are arranged closer to the cathode, i.e., displaced to the region of weaker transverse field. For two cathode geometries, the probabilities of direct current breakage depending on the induction of the external nonuniform magnetic field are experimentally determined. To determine the conditions of current breakage, a three-dimensional mathematical model of ion motion is suggested and the current breakage criterion is formulated. The trajectories of fast cathode ions in an electrode system with a ring cathode have been calculated using the model. Calculations were performed in a nonuniform magnetic field, the radial and axial components of which have been measured experimentally. It is shown that conditions of current breakage determined with this criterion agree with the results of experiment.

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    E. F. Prozorov, K. N. Ul’yanov, V. A. Fedorov & Ya. I. Londer

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Original Russian Text © E.F. Prozorov, K.N. Ul’yanov, V.A. Fedorov, Ya.I. Londer, 2011, published in Teplofizika Vysokikh Temperatur, 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 649–657.

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Prozorov, E.F., Ul’yanov, K.N., Fedorov, V.A. et al. Study of the direct current breakage process in an external nonuniform magnetic field. High Temp 49, 629–636 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0018151X1105018X

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