ON THE FORMATION OF PLASMA CARBON COMPONENT IN THE HOLLOW CATHODE ANOMALOUS GLOW DISCHARGE

Abstract
Plasma, containing a component of atoms and molecules of carbon, occured in a series of important cases, for example it may appear in the laboratory high-temperature plasma, contacting with graphite /1/. At this point the situations with simultaneously bombardment of a surface by different ions in the range 100 eV remains poorly studied /2/. Cometary molecules C₂ and C₃ determine the visual diameter of cometary heads /3/ and may create the cometary atmospheres dust component directly in the environment of the cometary nucleus by condensation /4/. Laboratory investigation of the formation of solid phase in the heads of comets at the cost of action of condensation mechanism required the creation in a plasma medium an over-saturated carbon vapor phase with the concentration n_c>≈10¹¹ molecula/cm³.