THE LANGMUIR PROBE IN A COLLISION DOMINATED PLASMA WITH A HIGH-ENERGY NUCLEAR RADIATION BACKGROUND.

Abstract

The use of probes in collision-dominated plasmas is becoming more necessary and hence more common. As a result, theoretical studies of collisional probe properties and rapid time response have been performed and these provide the basis for this report. The purpose of this report is to consider the use of Langmuir probes or other techniques to measure the time-dependent behavior of the electric field and electron density in slightly ionized air at 1 atm, in the presence of a 10,000 V/m electric field, (maximum value), 1 gauss magnetic field, and a mixed high-energy neutron and gamma radiation field. We give attention to collisional effects, the effect of the radiation on the probe response and output, and the probe capacitance and response time. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0682519

Entities

People

  • E. L. Battle
  • M. F. Baran

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Collisions
  • Corpuscular Radiation
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Gamma Rays
  • High Energy
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Langmuir Probes
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Probes
  • Radiation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.
  • Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics