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It is shown that there appears a strong resistive electric field in plasma focus discharges due to the effect of the self-magnetic-field insulation. This field, much more prevalent than an inductive one, can accelerate ions up to a directed energy of the order of MeV. A simple scaling is given for peak ion-energy and compared with recent experimental results.
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Tanimoto et al. (1982) studied this question.
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