Variation of measured particle velocity distributions with distance from a finite-size plasma
Abstract
The distribution function measured using an ideal planar retarding-field energy analyzer external to a finite-size uniform source of particles depends on the location of the analyzer. The error that occurs when this distribution function is used to infer the temperature inside the source is investigated for a variety of source shapes, locations, and potentials when the distribution is both Maxwellian and anisotropic.
- Publication:
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Journal of Applied Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.326227
- Bibcode:
- 1979JAP....50.2684D
- Keywords:
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- Distribution Functions;
- Plasma Diagnostics;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Distance;
- Isotropy;
- Maxwell-Boltzmann Density Function;
- Plasma Temperature;
- Temperature Measurement;
- Plasma Physics;
- 52.70.Nc;
- 06.30.Gv;
- 41.80.-y;
- Particle measurements;
- Velocity acceleration and rotation