Recombination in an expanding laser-produced plasma
Abstract
A simple model of three-body recombination in a freely expanding plasma which is initially isothermal but whose initial density decreases with radius leads to a variation of ion charge state within the ion flow, in qualitative agreement with that observed in laser-produced plasma experiments.
- Publication:
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Journal of Applied Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.323257
- Bibcode:
- 1976JAP....47.3918G
- Keywords:
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- Ion Currents;
- Laser Plasmas;
- Plasma Physics;
- Recombination Reactions;
- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Electron Recombination;
- Flow Velocity;
- Glass;
- Ion Density (Concentration);
- Ion Recombination;
- Plasma Density;
- Plasma Physics;
- 52.25.-b;
- 52.70.Nc;
- 52.65.+z;
- Plasma properties;
- Particle measurements