Accession Number:

ADA280938

Title:

Atomic Processes Relevant to Antimatter Fuel Production and Storage

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Jun 1993-May 1994

Corporate Author:

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO LONDON DEPT OF PHYSICS

Personal Author(s):

• Mitchell, J. B.

Report Date:

1994-05-31

Pagination or Media Count:

50.0

Abstract:

Electric field effects have been identified in the dissociative recombination of H3 ions. This process proceeds via the formation of high lying Rydberg states that are field ionized in the ion analyser in our apparatus. Reducing this field results in measured cross section five times larger than with the normal operating field. A brief update on measurements of simulated radiative recombination of He is presented

Descriptors:

• *PRODUCTION
• *PROCESSING
• *FUELS
• *ATOMIC PROPERTIES
• *STORAGE
• *RECOMBINATION REACTIONS
• *NUCLEAR PARTICLES
• IONS
• CANADA
• LASERS
• ELECTRONS
• CROSS SECTIONS
• DEUTERIUM
• ANTIPARTICLES
• ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
• DISSOCIATION
• HELIUM
• ELECTRONIC STATES
• HYDROGEN
• PROTONS
• ELECTRIC FIELDS
• EXCITATION
• VIBRATION

Subject Categories:

• Electricity and Magnetism
• Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy
• Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics
• Fuels

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE