Ion-energy distribution in a plasma under a diverging magnetic field
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 45 (1) , 85-88
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1663023
Abstract
A distribution function of ion energy parallel to a magnetic field is measured to be deformed along a diverging magnetic field in a single‐ended Q machine. The deformation is well explained by the orbit theory for a collisionless plasma.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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