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A high-frequency capacitive discharge is simulated in the geometry of a plasma accelerator with closed electron drift. It has been shown that, in such a discharge, as in a dc discharge, an azimuthal electron drift takes place and a potential drop is formed at the discharge channel exit, which leads to the emergence of an accelerated ion beam from the channel.
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Original Russian Text © I.I. Zadiriev, A.A. Rukhadze, E.A. Kral’kina, K.V. Vavilin, V.B. Pavlov, V.P. Tarakanov, 2016, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 86, No. 11, pp. 1–5.
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Zadiriev, I.I., Rukhadze, A.A., Kral’kina, E.A. et al. Mathematical simulation of a low-pressure capacitive RF discharge in an external radial magnetic field using the KARAT code. Tech. Phys. 61, 1603–1608 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784216110281
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