Ion Runaway in Lightning Discharges
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Ion runaway in lightning discharges.
Runaway ions can be produced in plasmas with large electric fields, where the accelerating electric force is augmented by the low mean ionic charge due to the imbalance between the number of electrons and ions. Here we derive an expression for the high-energy tail of the ion distribution function in lightning discharges and investigate the energy range that the ions can reach. We also estimate ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.015006