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Quenching of metastable hydrogen in collisions with molecules

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OSTI ID:4137093
Total cross sections for quenching of metastable hydrogen and deuterium atoms in collisions with some selected molecules have been measured. The velocity range of the metastable projectiles is from 0.48 to 3.6x10$sup 6$cm/sec. The cross sections have been compared with the predictions of two theoretical treatments by Gersten and Semini which both assume collisional quenching to be due to the interaction of the metastable atom with the molecule's lowest order electric multipole moment. (FR)
Research Organization:
Wuerzburg Univ. (F.R. Germany). Physikalisches Inst.
NSA Number:
NSA-33-013065
OSTI ID:
4137093
Country of Publication:
France
Language:
English