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An Experimental Test of Vinen’s Dimensional Theory of Turbulent He II

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In a previous work,1 using submerged thermionic filaments, we measured the escape probability P of negative ions trapped on vorticity in turbulent He II and demonstrated that the vorticity is identical to that in rotating helium except for spatial configuration of the lines. Above 1.75°K the results are in agreement with observations on rotating superfluid and with Donnelly’s escape theory.2 Below this temperature anomalously large values of P were measured. In order to further investigate this effect and to observe the pressure dependence of P, we have studied the space-charge-limited diode current from an 8-Ci tritium ion source.3

Supported in part by the Office of Naval Research.

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  1. Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    D. M. Sitton

  2. Department of Physics, University of Missouri—St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    F. E. Moss

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  1. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    K. D. Timmerhaus  & W. J. O’Sullivan  & 

  2. National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA

    K. D. Timmerhaus

  3. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

    E. F. Hammel

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Sitton, D.M., Moss, F.E. (1974). An Experimental Test of Vinen’s Dimensional Theory of Turbulent He II. In: Timmerhaus, K.D., O’Sullivan, W.J., Hammel, E.F. (eds) Low Temperature Physics-LT 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7864-8_92

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