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- Title
A Discharge with Runaway Electrons: Efficient Process for the Formation of Rydberg States in Oxygen Molecules.
- Authors
Ivanov, V. V.; Rakhimova, T. V.; Savost’yanov, K. V.
- Abstract
A new method for exciting high-lying states in oxygen molecules is proposed, which is based on the interaction of O[sub 2] molecules with a low-energy (∼10²-10[sup 4] eV) electron beam formed in a discharge with runaway electrons. An algorithm for calculating the electron energy distribution function (EEDF) using the Monte Carlo simulation technique is developed. The EEDF calculation for a discharge in pure oxygen is performed for a plasma pumped with monoenergetic electron beam in the absence of an external electric field. Efficiencies of the formation of Rydberg and Herzberg states in oxygen molecules under conditions of a quasi-stationary dc discharge and a discharge with runaway electrons are compared.
- Subjects
RYDBERG states; OXYGEN; PLASMA gases
- Publication
Technical Physics Letters, 2001, Vol 27, Issue 9, p712
- ISSN
1063-7850
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.1405236