Abstract
The effect of a magnetic mirror field and ion motion in a high frequency gas discharge are investigated experimentally. The breakdown voltage in the mirror field is about ten percent less than that in uniform field. For both the uniform and the mirror magnetic fields, the minimum voltage of breakdown are observed at ωci/ω≃1, where ωci and ω are the frequencies of the ion cyclotron and the applied alternating electric field, respectively. These experimental results can be explained by a theory describing energy gain by ions and reduction in the number of electrons by diffusion.
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