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Role of electronegative gas admixtures in streamer start, propagation and branching phenomena

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A critical analysis of photoionization as the major process for seed electron production ahead of the cathode-directed streamer has been made. The accumulation of O-2 ions between pulses and fast electron detachment in an electric field could be an effective source of seed electrons for repetitively pulsed discharges in electronegative gases. Measurements and two-dimensional calculations in the hydrodynamic approximation of streamer parameters in air (anode current, propagation velocity and radiative channel diameter) can only agree if one assumes uniform background pre-ionization and not by taking into account only the photoionization process generally adopted for pulsed discharges in air. The results of analytical estimates and full three-dimensional simulations confirm that the seed charge distribution in the undisturbed gap has an effect on the streamer head formation and leads to the streamer branching phenomena.

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hal-00113389 , version 1 (13-11-2006)

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Sergey V. Pancheshnyi. Role of electronegative gas admixtures in streamer start, propagation and branching phenomena. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2005, 14 (4), pp.645-653. ⟨10.1088/0963-0252/14/4/002⟩. ⟨hal-00113389⟩
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