On the basis of low pressure spark discharges a new type of a particle accelerator as been developed. It produces pulsed ion as well as electron beams of high intensities in a gas atmosphere at pressures of the order of 1 mbar. The method was used to produce in hydrogene at particle energies of about 70 keV an electron beam with a current density of more than 106 A/cm2 at 140 A total current. It is shown that magnetic confinement by the pinch effect takes place in the discharge. Discharge times smaller than 5 ns and spark frequencies up to 2 MHz can be obtained. © 1979 Springer-Verlag.
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Christiansen, J., & Schultheiss, C. (1979). Production of high current particle beams by low pressure spark discharges. Zeitschrift Für Physik A: Atoms and Nuclei, 290(1), 35–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01408477
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