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Ball lightning with the nonrelativistic electrons of the core

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2015

M. L. Shmatov
M. L. Shmatov*
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Ioffe Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
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†Email address for correspondence: M.Shmatov@mail.ioffe.ru
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Abstract

The lifetimes, volume densities of energy, electron and ion densities and other parameters of ball lightning cores with the nonrelativistic electrons are estimated. The model according to which the motion of the electrons of the ball lightning core is the superposition of the oscillatory motion and the thermal motion in the directions perpendicular to those of the oscillations is proposed. Some problems related to isolation of the ball lightning core from the atmosphere and the transfer of the atmospheric pressure on it are considered.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 81 , Issue 4 , August 2015 , 905810406
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