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An explanation is given to the results of an experiment on studying the explosive electron emission in a wire-cathode diode where a strongly nonuniform energy deposition into the wire material was observed using an X pinch as a radiation source for projection x-ray imaging. The specific input energy, contrary to the well-known observations, was not a maximum at the wire end, i.e., in the region of the strongest electric field, and the wire explosion occurred in the bulk, distant from the end. This is accounted for by the contribution of the wire side surface to explosive electron emission and by the gas desorption from the wire intensely heated by a current of density 108 A/cm2. Thus, the space between anode and cathode (wire end) is bridged by two plasmas: one generated due to the explosive electron emission from the wire side surface and the other produced from the desorbed gas.
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Original Russian Text © G.A. Mesyats, E.V. Parkevich, S.A. Pikuz, M.I. Yalandin, 2016, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2016, Vol. 470, No. 4, pp. 397–400.
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Mesyats, G.A., Parkevich, E.V., Pikuz, S.A. et al. Shunting effect in explosive electron emission. Dokl. Phys. 61, 481–484 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028335816100037
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