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Calculation of the effective rotational transition probabilities for excitation by electron impact from the ground state N/sub 2/X/sup 1/. sigma. /sup +//sub g/ (v = 0, k) to the excited state N/sup +//sub 2/B/sup 2/. sigma. /sup +//sub u/(b', k') of nitrogen

Journal Article · · Sov. Phys. - Tech. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:5675810
Results are reported from a calculation of the effective probabilities of electron--vibrational--rotational transitions when the state N/sup +//sub 2/B/sup 2/ ..sigma../sup +//sub u/(v' = 0) is excited by secondary electrons produced by ionization of nitrogen by a 10 keV primary electron beam. Use is made of the fact that the relative contribution from secondary electrons to emission from the first negative system of N/sup +//sub 2/ increases with distance from the center of the primary beam. The adiabatic approximation is used to calculate the transition probabilities from experimental data. It is shown that for secondary electrons, the probabilities of transitions with ..delta..k = 3, 4, 5,... are comparable in magnitude to the probabilities of transitions with ..delta..k = +- 1.
Research Organization:
Institute of Heat Physics, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk
OSTI ID:
5675810
Journal Information:
Sov. Phys. - Tech. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Sov. Phys. - Tech. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 28:2; ISSN SPTPA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English