Affiliation:
1. Institute of High Current Electronics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
The results of study of the initial stage of expansion of a collisionless plasma with the electric current into a plane vacuum gap on the basis of kinetic equations for electrons and ions and the Poisson equation for the electric field are given. Self-consistent dynamics of a two-component plasma and electric field are theoretically modeled and the fundamental mechanism for establishing superthermal velocities of charged particles is described in detail. The parameters of anode-directed flows of positive ions in the cathode plume plasma are calculated. The expansion velocities of the cathode plume plasma observed in vacuum arcs at the level of (1−5) × 106 cm/s can be explained within the framework of the proposed collisionless mechanism.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences
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