scholarly journals Two- and Three-body Ion-Electron Recombination Rate Coefficients in Neon

1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 503 ◽  
Author(s):  
RN Bhave ◽  
R Cooper

The rates of recombination of electrons with Net ions over a wide range of pressure (1001000 Torr) and at temperatures of 133, 233 and 295 K were measured. Two- and three-body recombination processes were resolved. The observed two-body rate coefficient is lower than earlier reports. The three-body rate measured agrees well with predictions from Flarinery's modified theory by Bates for termolecular ion-electron recombination in a monatomic gas.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuyang Zhou ◽  
Yizhi Qu ◽  
Junwen Gao ◽  
Yulong Ma ◽  
Yong Wu ◽  
...  

AbstractAn ion embedded in warm/hot dense plasmas will greatly alter its microscopic structure and dynamics, as well as the macroscopic radiation transport properties of the plasmas, due to complicated many-body interactions with surrounding particles. Accurate theoretically modeling of such kind of quantum many-body interactions is essential but very challenging. In this work, we propose an atomic-state-dependent screening model for treating the plasmas with a wide range of temperatures and densities, in which the contributions of three-body recombination processes are included. We show that the electron distributions around an ion are strongly correlated with the ionic state studied due to the contributions of three-body recombination processes. The feasibility and validation of the proposed model are demonstrated by reproducing the experimental result of the line-shift of hot-dense plasmas as well as the classical molecular dynamic simulations of moderately coupled ultra-cold neutral plasmas. Our work opens a promising way to treat the screening effect of hot and warm dense plasma, which is a bottleneck of those extensive studies in high-energy-density physics, such as atomic processes in plasma, plasma spectra and radiation transport properties, among others.


2008 ◽  
Vol 113 (A4) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan A. Pejaković ◽  
Konstantinos S. Kalogerakis ◽  
Richard A. Copeland ◽  
David L. Huestis

Atoms ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Nicholas L. Wong ◽  
Fergal O’Reilly ◽  
Emma Sokell

Plasmas of a variety of types can be described by the collisional radiative (CR) model developed by Colombant and Tonan. From the CR model, the ion distribution of a plasma at a given electron temperature and density can be found. This information is useful for further simulations, and due to this, the employment of a suitable CR model is important. Specifically, ionization bottlenecks, where there are enhanced populations of certain charge states, can be seen in these ion distributions, which in some applications are important in maintaining large amounts of a specific ion. The present work was done by implementing an accepted CR model, proposed by Colombant and Tonon, in Python and investigating the effects of variations in the ionization energy and outermost electron subshell occupancy term on the positions of ionization bottlenecks. Laser Produced Plasmas created using a Nd:YAG laser with an electron density of ∼ne = 1021 cm−3 were the focus of this work. Plots of the collisional ionization, radiative recombination, and three-body recombination rate coefficients as well as the ion distribution and peak fractional ion population for various elements were examined. From these results, it is evident that using ionization energies from the NIST database and removing the orbital occupancy term in the CR model produced results with ionization bottlenecks in expected locations.


1964 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1166-1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Woznick ◽  
James C. Keck

Consideration is given to the calculation of the rate coefficient of processes of the type A + + B + C → AB + + C. Classical mechanics is used. The impulse approximation is adopted and hard-sphere interactions are taken to describe C – A + and C – B collisions. Formulae are derived for the rate coefficients of binary collisions giving specified changes in the internal energy of the associating pair (without reference to their orbital angular momentum) and also of binary collisions giving specified changes in both the internal energy and in the square of the orbital angular momentum. By using quasi-equilibrium statistical theory, the rate co­efficient for three-body ion-neutral association is expressed in terms of either set of binary rate coefficients. Computations are carried out only Hg + + Hg + He → Hg + 2 + He. As expected, the predicted rate co­efficient is too high if specific account is not taken of the orbital angular momentum. If such account is taken excellent agreement is obtained with a measurement at 370 K made by Biondi (1953, 1972, private com­munication). The rate coefficient falls off slowly as the temperature is increased.


1976 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-674
Author(s):  
K. H. Becker ◽  
H. Engels ◽  
T. Tatarczyk

Unstabilized N2(B3IIg, ν = 13) quasi-molecules were analysed by excitation with a tunable dye-laser into the N2(C3IIu) state and observation of the following fluorescence to N2(B3IIg, ν) levels. The quasi-molecules are in equilibrium with the free nitrogen atoms. The detection limit of this technique is 105 molecules/cm3. By the same method, a rotational analysis of molecules stabilized into (B3IIg, ν ≦ 12) levels by three-body recombination processes was achieved with a resolution better than that reached by emission spectroscopy of the Lewis-Rayleigh afterglow


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