Effect of Temperature and Electron Density on the Intensity of the Continuum Emitted by a Weakly Nonideal Xenon Plasma

摘要

It is shown experimentally that the intensity of the continuum emitted by a nonideal plasma and measured at a constant electron density increases with increasing temperature. This experimental fact is attributed to the increase of population of atomic energy states (the probabilities of realization of energy states taking into account their partial decay under the action of electric microfields of a plasma). An assumption is made that the effect of temperature on the redistribution of fields is stronger than the one predicted by the theory.