Breakdown Probability of a Low Pressure Gas Discharge
- 1 March 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 75 (5) , 833-838
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.75.833
Abstract
The probability distribution of the number of electrons in an "avalanche" in a low pressure gas discharge is calculated and the result applied to the calculation of the breakdown probability. Under some simplifying assumptions the probability that the avalanche caused by one initial electron, liberated from the cathode, leads to breakdown is found to be
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