Accession Number:

AD0691272

Title:

MEASUREMENT OF NO(+)Cs CHARGE EXCHANGE CROSS SECTIONS.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Sep 67-31 Mar 69,

Corporate Author:

UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP EAST HARTFORD CONN RESEARCH LABS

Personal Author(s):

• Churchill,Thomas L.
• Bullis,Robert H.

Report Date:

1969-06-30

Pagination or Media Count:

55.0

Abstract:

The charge-exchange cross section was measured for the NO Cs reaction over a relative energy range of 0.65 to 8.3 eV in a 90 deg crossed-beam experiment. In these measurements an electroformed collision chamber was employed to eliminate the usual uncertainties associated with the determination of the energy of charged particle beams at low energies. In addition, it was found that the appearance of vibrational excitation in the NO ground state ion significantly increases the probability for charge exchange with cesium at a fixed relative energy. Author

Descriptors:

• (*IONOSPHERE
• *CESIUM)
• (*NITROGEN OXIDES
• *EXCHANGE REACTIONS)
• (*MOLECULAR BEAMS
• NITROGEN OXIDES)
• IONS
• INTERACTIONS
• GAS IONIZATION
• MASS SPECTROSCOPY
• ION BOMBARDMENT

Subject Categories:

• Atmospheric Physics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE