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An experimental investigation into the behaviour of a spherical plasma resonance probe in a magnetic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. G. Davies
P. G. Davies
Affiliation:
Science Research Council, Radio and Space Research Station, Ditton Park, Slough, Bucks.
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Abstract

The rectified electron current to a non-magnetic and to a magnetic spherical plasma probe has been investigated as a function of the frequency of the applied alternating potential, the discharge current in the plasma source and the magnitude of the magnetic field produced by a Helmholtz coil pair. The frequency at the main peak in the rectified current was found to be always greater than the gyro- frequency and to lie within a range of frequency predicted by Crawford from an analysis of a simplified model. The results of this laboratory work have been applied to a rocket-borne experiment on resonance rectification previously carried out by R.S.R.S.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , November 1967 , pp. 451 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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