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On a supersonic flow of ions in a light gas

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The possibility of attainment of large Mach numbers is analyzed for the case of heavy ions drifting in a light gas. Under conditions typical of experiments with dust structures in plasmas, the use of the mixture of light and heavy gases is shown to make it possible to suppress the ion heating in the electric field and to form supersonic flows characterized by large Mach numbers. The drift of xenon ions in helium is considered as an example.

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  1. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Maiorov, 2007, published in Kratkie Soobshcheniya po Fizike, 2007, Vol. 34, No. 7, pp. 44–50.

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Maiorov, S.A. On a supersonic flow of ions in a light gas. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 34, 214–218 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335607070068

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