Bremsstrahlung analysis through the microwave cutoff and afterglow performances

Bremsstralung spectra with a very good energy resolution have been obtained for various time slabs of a few ms throughout the microwave cutoff. In a recent work (1) we had noticed+ and explained why the enhancement of the extracted high charge currents by the afterglow effect is more pronounced when the X-ray emission in the heating stage is more intense. In the present communication, we give some additional information deduced from our spectra. We indicate estimates of the temperature parameter and of the density of the hot electron population at various times. For this purpose the method presented in ref.(3) was adapted to argon. We also determine the maximum energy reached by the electrons in the steady state; the spare results seem to follow the scaling law indicated in Geller's book (4).