THE ENERGY BALANCE AND PLASMA PARAMETERS IN THE INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED LOW-PRESSURE DISCHARGE IN THE FERRITEFREE CLOSED-LOOP TUBE
Power losses in elastic and non-elastic collisions and on the tube walls are theoretically studied in the ferritefree inductively-coupled low-pressure RF discharge plasma excited аt the frequency of 159-1590 kHz in the mixture of a mercury vapor and an argon. Using the RF discharge electrodynamic model developed earlier by the authors, and equations of current continuity and the plasma energy balance, the authors calculate plasma electron temperature, a discharge current and the plasma power. The results of calculations are in good agreement with the experiment and with the results of the calculations made with the help of the transformer model of the low pressure inductive discharge.