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Title
Japanese: 
English:Azimuthal ExB drift of electrons induced by the radial electric field flowing through a longitudinal magnetic channel with non-magnetized ions 
Author
Japanese: 赤塚洋, 武田遵, 根津篤.  
English: Hiroshi Akatsuka, Jun Takeda, Atsushi Nezu.  
Language English 
Journal/Book name
Japanese: 
English:Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 
Volume, Number, Page Vol. 61    No. 9    p. 72
Published date Oct. 10, 2016 
Publisher
Japanese: 
English:The American Physical Society 
Conference name
Japanese: 
English:69th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC2016) 
Conference site
Japanese:ボーフム 
English:Bochum 
Official URL http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/GEC16/Session/MW6.44
 
Abstract o examine of the effect of the radial electric field on the azimuthal electron motion under E×B field for plasmas with magnetized electrons and non-magnetized ions, an experimental study is conducted by a stationary plasma flow. The argon plasma flow is generated by a DC arc generator under atmospheric pressure, followed by a cw expansion into a rarefied gas-wind tunnel with a uniform magnetic field ∼0.16 T. Inside one of the magnets, we set a ring electrode to apply the radial electric field. We applied an up-down probe for the analysis of the electron motion, where one of the tips is also used as a Langmuir probe to measure electron temperature, density and the space potential. We found that the order of the radial electric field is about several hundred V/m, which should be caused by the difference in the magnetization between electrons and ions. Electron saturation current indicates the existence of the E×B rotation of electrons, whose order is about 2000−4000 m/s. The order of the observed electron drift velocity is consistent with the theoretical value calculated from the applied magnetic field and the measured electric field deduced from the space potential.

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