
%0 Journal Article
%A Brand, GF 
%A Heckenberg, NR 
%A Watson-Munro, CN 
%T Spectral and Microwave Studies of the Decay of a Highly Ionized Hydrogen Plasma
%J Australian Journal of Physics
%D 1969/06/01
%V 22
%N 3
%P 337-344
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PH690337
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PH690337 
%X The decay of an almost fully ionized hydrogen plasma immersed in a magnetic field of 1 tesla has been investigated spectroscopically and with microwave interferometers at 35 and 120 GHz. It has been found that the plasma decays approximately exponentially in time and that the density-temperature relations in the contracting central column are adequately described in terms of the theoretical predictions of Bates, Kingston, and McWhirter down to densities of about 1 X 1019 m-3 and temperatures of 2000oK. Competing processes of axial and transverse diffusion have been shown to play no significant part in the decay of this plasma. 
