Under normal conditions, electrons are accelerated by electric fields and decelerated by collision processes. After some time, a stable equilibrium between these two processes is achieved and electrons drift with constant speed against the field direction. Such a scheme is called the ohmic regime. At higher speeds or electric fields, the situation may be completely different. Collisions may not be able to compensate for electron acceleration and electrons attain the so called runaway mode. Runaway electrons are detected in the Earth’s magnetosphere during storms, in the solar plasma, and also in laboratory plasmas and in many plasma technologies., Petr Kulhánek., and Obsahuje bibliografii