Nonequilibrium effects in ion and electron transport. Final report 1989-1990

Technical Report · Thu Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5796954

Gallagher, J W; Hudson, D E; Kunhardt, E E; Van Brunt, R I

This volume presents the contributions of the participants in the Sixth International Swarm Seminar, held August 2-5, 1989, at the Webb Institute in Glenn Cove, New York. The Swarm Seminars are traditionally held as relatively small satellite conferences of the International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC) which occurs every two years. The 1989 ICPEAC took place in New York City prior to the Swarm Seminar. The focus of the Swarm Seminars has been on basic research relevant to understanding the transport of charged particles, mainly electrons and ions, in weakly ionized gases. This field that tends to bridge the gap between studies of fundamental binary atomic and molecular collision processes and studies of electrical breakdown or discharge phenomena in gases. Topics includes in the 1989 seminar ranged the gamut from direct determinations of charged-particle collision cross sections to use of cross sections and swarm parameters to model the behavior of electrical gas discharges. The range of subjects covered was in many respects similar to that of previous seminars. (js)

• Research Organization: Polytechnic Univ., Farmingdale, NY (USA). Weber Research Inst.
• OSTI ID: 5796954
• Report Number(s): AD-A-229961/8/XAB; CNN: AFOSR-89-0453
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ATOMS
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT
COLLISIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
ELECTRONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
FLUIDS
GASES
IONIZED GASES
IONS
LEPTONS
PHYSICS
RADIATION TRANSPORT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS