Accession Number:
AD0750659
Title:
Direct Transition Features in Stripping Collisions of Heavy Neutral Atoms and Ions.
Descriptive Note:
Topical research rept.,
Corporate Author:
CORNELL UNIV ITHACA N Y LAB OF PLASMA STUDIES
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Report Date:
1971-07-01
Pagination or Media Count:
47.0
Abstract:
Previously published experimental data on single-electrons tripping for over 100 different neutral-neutral and almost 100 ion-neutral collision pairs are compared with Firsovs statistical ionization model. Reasonable agreement is found for a number of reactions, in particular for collisions between some rare gas atoms. However, marked disagreement exists for many other collisions. From a model assuming a single-step transition of the ionized electron from the bound state into the continuum, a scaling law is developed semi-empirically which is found able to reduce a large majority of these published data to within a factor 2 of a general cross section curve. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Physical Chemistry
- Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics