MACROPARTICLE ACCELERATION IN A CARBON ARC

I. P. Smyaglikov and V. D. Shimanovich

UDC 533.9:537.525.5

Consideration is given to the mechanisms of acceleration 
of carbon macroparticles forming a cathode coating in a carbon arc 
under the conditions of fullerene formation. Based on experimental 
data and theoretical estimates, the macroparticle velocity is determined. 
It is shown that on collision of particles with the cathode surface 
the conditions are realized in the zone of contact where graphite 
fusion can occur.

Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk; email: lphpp@imaph.bas-net.by. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 34-37, 
July-August, 2002. Original article submitted November 15, 2001.

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