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Title: First experimental results on the kinetic processes in a surface-wave-sustained argon discharge at atmospheric pressure

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OSTI ID:212996
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  1. Universidad de Cordoba (Spain); and others

This communication presents an advance of the results of an experimental study of the kinetic processes in a surface-wave-sustained argon discharge at atmospheric pressure. We utilize the study developed by Fujimoto on the population and depopulation processes of the excited levels of atoms and ions. This theory has been applied by S. Daviaud and A. Hirabayashi to explain the kinetic processes in helium plasma at low pressure. Fujimoto has studied the ionization and recombination mechanisms of the plasma under various conditions and its relation to the population density distributions. This study establishes, for an hydrogenic ion with a core charge z, different zones in the atomic system (level map). Each zone is characterized by the dominant mechanisms of the population and depopulation of their excited levels, A level is characterized for the effective principal quantum number p, where p = z (E{sub H}/{vert_bar}E{sub p}{vert_bar}){sup 1/2}, E{sub H} is the hydrogen ionization energy and {vert_bar}E{sub p}{vert_bar} is the energy required to ionize the atom from the level considered. The population of each level p can be expressed in terms of the parameter b(p) defined as n(p)/n{sup SB}(p), n(p) and n{sup SB}(p) being the actual population and the Saha-Boltzmann equilibrium population of the level, respectively. Figure I shows the population and depopulation processes of a level p, which are both collisional and radiative that are characterized by their respective coefficients.

OSTI ID:
212996
Report Number(s):
CONF-950749-; TRN: 96:010145
Resource Relation:
Conference: 22. international conference on phenomena in ionized gases, Hoboken, NJ (United States), 31 Jul - 4 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of XXII International conference on phenomena in ionized gases. Contributed papers 4; Becker, K.H.; Carr, W.E.; Kunhardt, E.E. [eds.]; PB: 256 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English