Electrical breakdown in helium cells at low temperature.
Electrical breakdown of partially filled helium cells below 0.5 K is shown to be the result of Penning ionization of metastable triplet helium excimers bound to the surface of the liquid.
Sethumadhavan
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Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
Yao
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Huang
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Lanou
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Maris
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