Laboratory demonstration of ball lightning

A.I. Egorov, S.I. Stepanov, G.D. Shabanov
B.P. Konstantinov St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Rusian Federation

A common laboratory facility for creating glowing flying plasmoids akin to a natural ball lightning, allowing a number of experiments to be performed to investigate the main properties of ball lightning, is described.

PACS: 52.80.−s, 92.60.Pw (all)
DOI: 10.1070/PU2004v047n01ABEH001691
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2004/1/f/
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Citation: Egorov A I, Stepanov S I, Shabanov G D "Laboratory demonstration of ball lightning" Phys. Usp. 47 99–101 (2004)

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Оригинал: Егоров А И, Степанов С И, Шабанов Г Д «Демонстрация шаровой молнии в лаборатории» УФН 174 107–109 (2004); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0174.200401g.0107

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