The formation process and some characteristics of a high-current electron beam in dependence on pressure and working gas (argon, air, helium) filling the diode as well as on induction of an external guide magnetic field are investigated. The explosive emission is initiated with the use of arc plasma sources built into a copper disc cathode. It is shown that both the beam current and its pulse energy increase monotonically with the magnetic field induction. The beam pulse energy dependence on the gas pressure is, on the contrary, nonmonotonic. At first, the beam pulse energy increases with the pressure and then falls down due to the development of a beam-plasma discharge, which decreases both the diode impedance and the beam pulse duration.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 9–13, October, 2022.
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Kiziridi, P.P., Ozur, G.E. Formation of a Non-Relativistic, High-Current Electron Beam in a Gas-Filled Diode. Russ Phys J 65, 1619–1624 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-023-02810-w
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