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The uncommonly high rf absorption efficiency of helicon discharges has been thought to be caused by Landau damping of helicon waves and the concomitant acceleration of primary electrons. By constructing an energy analyzer that accounts for rf fluctuations in plasma potential, it is shown that Landau-accelerated electrons are too sparse to explain the ionization efficiency. Instead, rf absorption and ionization are found to be consistent with the mechanism of mode coupling to Trivelpiece-Gould modes at the plasma boundary.
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