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\section{Experimental Setup}  The plasma was created by an inductively coupled RF source operating at a power of 215 W with Helium as the working gas.A gas. A  voltage sweep was put across a langmuir probe 70 cm from the RF source 10 ms into the afterglow. A magnetic field was applied to the device through the use of two sets of four coaxial magnets created using 59.0 A and 24.5 A currents laid out around the device and resulting in a radially symmetric magnetic field through the device averaging to 63.5 Gauss along the axis. Waves were generated in the plasma using a waveform generating antenna, in 5 frequencies ranging from 20Mhz to 120Mhz in 20Mhz steps. Measurements for the  20Mhz data run began 5cm away from theclosest point the probe is allowed to be to the  source tothe  with 5 measurents taken in the z direction in 2 cm steps.Angular steps. Angular  measurements were taken 21 times in 1.3$^\circ$ steps. The same measurements and acquisititons were made in z and in angle except 31 angle measurements were taken for each set of frequencies for the 40-100 Mhz data runs. The 120 Mhz data run was taken 15 cm away from the allowed distacne distance  to the probe but instead 81 z measuremtns were taken at 0.37 steps and 51 angular measurements were take taken  at 1.0$^\circ$ steps.Electric steps. The electric  field is was  measured by  an electric dipole probe,shown  as shown in  figure 1.