Temporal characteristics of runaway electrons in electron-neutral collision-dominated plasma of dense gases. Monte Carlo calculations.

Authors
Bakhov, KI Babich, LP Kutsyk, IM
Citation
Ki. Bakhov et al., Temporal characteristics of runaway electrons in electron-neutral collision-dominated plasma of dense gases. Monte Carlo calculations., IEEE PLAS S, 28(4), 2000, pp. 1254-1262
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE
ISSN journal
00933813 → ACNP
Volume
28
Issue
4
Year of publication
2000
Pages
1254 - 1262
Database
ISI
SICI code
0093-3813(200008)28:4<1254:TCOREI>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Electron runaway rates, and runaway delay time, runaway threshold energies were obtained from Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in the field domains 35-400 kV/cm and 240-400 kV/cm, respectively, for helium and nitrogen at 1 ATM, M C simulations disprove all available analytical theories that ignore angula r scattering of electrons, with the sole exception of Gurevich's theory for helium, in which angular scattering is relatively weak.