Averaged ionization cross sections and rate coefficients in a partially ionized gas for small and high electron energy
Abstract
Averaged (with Maxwell's and Druyvesteyn's electron velocity distribution functions) electron collisional ionization cross sections and rate coefficients are given for the atoms in the ground state in the form of analytical formulas. These formulas work well either for small or for high values of mean electron energy in the partially ionized gas.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- February 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0375-9601(79)90313-X
- Bibcode:
- 1979PhLA...70...12K
- Keywords:
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- Electron Energy;
- Gas Ionization;
- Ionization Cross Sections;
- Ionized Gases;
- Electron Scattering;
- High Energy Electrons;
- Maxwell-Boltzmann Density Function;
- Scattering Cross Sections;
- Plasma Physics