The electrical breakdown of gases in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields |
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Authors: | H A Blevin S C Haydon |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Physics, University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W., Australia
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Abstract: | The breakdown characteristics of a gas in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields are discussed in terms of the Townsend ionization coefficients. The “equivalent pressure” concept is used to assess the effect of a transverse magnetic field on the first Townsend coefficient and the objections which have been raised to the application of this approach to breakdown potentials are shown to be removed by a consideration of the dependence of the second Townsend coefficient upon electric and magnetic field strengths. |
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