Влияние вида функции распределения электронов в плазме и дисперсии по энергии электронного пучка на устойчивость низковольтного пучкового разряда

Abstract

Within the framework of the kinetic approach, the conditions for the loss of stability of a low-voltage beam discharge in inert gases (LVBD) are studied depending on the temperature of the electron beam, the dispersion of the electron beam velocity in the direction of the discharge axis, and the form of the electron energy distribution function (EEDF). Regimes are considered when the interelectrode distance is on the order of the electron mean free path relative to elastic collisions with inert gas atoms. It is shown that the beam temperature Tb, determined in the LVBD by the cathode temperature not exceeding 1500 K, and the dispersion of the beam electron energy, which in the LVBD can be significantly higher than kTb and reaches 1 - 2 eV, have little effect on the conditions for the loss of stability of the LVBD and the magnitude of the growth rate of disturbance amplification at frequencies up to plasma It was found that the form of the EEDF monotonically decreasing with increasing electron energy also does not affect the parameters of the perturbations propagating in the LVBD at the beam energy much higher than the average electron energy in the plasma. The results obtained are applicable not only to LVBD, but also to other types of self-sustained beam discharges.