Energy Analysis of Cesium Ions in a Q Machine
- 1 May 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 14 (5), 1019-1023
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1693532
Abstract
Energy analysis of cesium ions in the collision‐dominated plasma of a double‐ended machine is reported. The ion temperature, found to be between 3000 and 6000°K, is always greater than the temperature of the hot ionizing plates. Also, the measured temperature is almost 50% greater than can be accounted for solely by thermal and electrostatic energy associated with the acceleration of ions in the plasma sheath.
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