
%0 Journal Article
%A Cross, RC 
%A Blackwell, BD 
%T Ohmic Heating and Ionization Measurements for an Axial Discharge in Hydrogen
%J Australian Journal of Physics
%D 1978/02/01
%V 31
%N 1
%P 61-70
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PH780061
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PH780061 
%X Experimental results are presented on the heating effect and rate of ionization produced by an axial discharge (~1O kA) in hydrogen gas at filling pressures of 25--400 mTorr. The electron temperature remains very low (about 1·5 eV) even at ohmic heating power levels as high as 200 MWm-3 ? The results are compared with a theoretical model which assumes that the only energy loss mechanism is ionization of neutral particles. The importance of other loss mechanisms, including convection, conduction and radiation, is also discussed. 
