Measurement of the Probability of Nucleation of a Vortex Ring in Helium II
- 7 June 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 26 (23), 1420-1423
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.26.1420
Abstract
An experiment is described which determines the probability of nucleation of a quantized vortex ring by an ion as a function of the ion velocity. The "lifetime edge" produced by a series of such measurements is compared with the theoretical predictions of Donnelly and Roberts.Keywords
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