Kinetics of electronic-excitation relaxation in dense inert gases and formation of excimer molecules

Journal Article · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981 · Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

OSTI ID:5669184

Grinchenko, B I; Chinnov, V F

The approximately steady-state properties are derived for the plasmas which are produced by intense electron beams in high-purity inert gases (Ar, Kr, and Xe). The primary mechanism for the conversion of the beam energy is the thermalization of the atoms which are formed during dissociative recombination of molecular ions with electrons. Because of the intense ionizational flux from the excited levels, the population distribution of these levels is of an ionizational nature, with pronounced population changes with respect to the ground state of the atom and the continuum.

• Research Organization: Institute of High Temperatures, Academy of Sciences of the USSR
• OSTI ID: 5669184
• Journal Information: Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 7:4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
BEAM-PLASMA SYSTEMS
EXCITATION
RELAXATION
ARGON
ELECTRON BEAMS
ELECTRON-ATOM COLLISIONS
IONIZATION
KRYPTON
RECOMBINATION
STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS
XENON
ATOM COLLISIONS
BEAMS
COLLISIONS
ELECTRON COLLISIONS
ELEMENTS
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
FLUIDS
GASES
LEPTON BEAMS
NONMETALS
PARTICLE BEAMS
RARE GASES
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