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A set of closely-related devices for generating a highly-ionized hydrogen plasma is described. In each device a hydrogen plasma is created in a cylindrical tube immersed in an axial magnetic field of from 4 to 20 kG. The plasma is formed by a switch-on ionizing wave, driven from an external capacitor bank. In a typical tube 14.6 cm dia. and 86.4 cm long, with a magnetic field of 15 kG, an ion density of > 5 × 1015 cm-3 is attained in hydrogen of initial atomic density 6.6 × 1015 cm-3. The temperature of this plasma is between 10,000 and 30,000°K, and the plasma decays in several hundred microseconds by a volume-recombination process.
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