A GAS-DISCHARGE STABILIZER

Abstract

A gas-discharge tube is placed in a solenoid connected in series with the discharge gas. The axis of the tube is parallel to the magnetic lines of force. In the anode-cathode discharge gap the charges move spirally, i.e., they have a tangential velocity component. Under the effect of this component, the gas in the tube begins to rotate. With an increase in the discharge current, the magnitude of the magnetic field increases, the trajectory of the charge is involuted, and as a result of the increase in the length of the trajectory and, consequently, the internal resistance of the gap, the current decreases. With a decrease in current the entire process reverses. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 07, 1961
Accession Number
AD0269625

Entities

People

  • A.m. Rezikyan
  • K.a. Madatyan
  • Yu. G. Agbalyan

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Discharge Tubes
  • Gas Discharges
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Resistance
  • Solenoids
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Plasma Physics.
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