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Dependence of spark discharge formation time in helium on the ionization in the discharge gap

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We have performed experiments studying the dependence of the time needed to form a discharge in helium as a function of the amount of ionization in the discharge gap of a spark chamber fitted with planar electrodes. The results are analyzed using the streamer theory of a discharge. We obtain a relationship between the discharge formation time and the primary ionization for certain models of discharge formation along particle trajectories. We provide a satisfactory description of the experimental data.

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  1. Scientific-Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, USSR

    P. S. Anan'in & V. N. Stibunov

  2. S. M. Kirov Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk

    P. S. Anan'in & V. N. Stibunov

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  1. P. S. Anan'in
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 47–52, September, 1983.

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Anan'in, P.S., Stibunov, V.N. Dependence of spark discharge formation time in helium on the ionization in the discharge gap. Soviet Physics Journal 26, 814–818 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00891847

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