Development of a supersonic atomic oxygen nozzle beam source for crossed beam scattering experiments
A high pressure, supersonic, radio frequency discharge nozzle beam source was developed for the production of intense beams of ground state oxygen atoms. An efficient impedance matching scheme was devised for coupling the radio frequency power to the plasma as a function of both gas pressure and composition. Techniques for localizing the discharge directly behind the orifice of a water-cooled quartz nozzle were also developed. The above combine to yield an atomic oxygen beam source which produces high molecular dissociation in oxygen seeded rare gas mixtures at total pressures up to 200 torr: 80 to 90% dissociation for oxygen/argon mixtures and 60 to 70% for oxygen/helium mixtures. Atomic oxygen intensities are found to be greater than 10/sup 17/ atom sr/sup -1/ sec/sup -1/. A brief discussion of the reaction dynamics of 0 + IC1 ..-->.. I0 + C1 is also presented. 12 references.
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Berkeley (USA). Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (DOE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6546043
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-7396; CONF-780728-2
- Resource Relation:
- 11. symposium on rarefied gas dynamics, Cannes, France, 3 Jul 1978
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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