Determination of the rate coefficients of the electron-impact excitation from the metastable states to 2p states of argon by the emission line ratios in an afterglow plasma

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 27, 2014, Pages

  Cheng, Zhi Wen ^a   Zhu, Xi Ming ^b   Liu, Fei Xiang ^a   Pu, Yi Kang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

2p states; afterglow plasma; argon; metastable states; rate coefficients

Indexed keywords

ARGON; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; IMPACT IONIZATION;

2P STATES; AFTERGLOW PLASMAS; CAPACITIVE DISCHARGES; DISTORTED WAVE METHODS; ELECTRON-IMPACT EXCITATION; MEASURED PARAMETERS; META-STABLE STATE; RATE COEFFICIENTS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 84902788380     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/47/27/275203     Document Type: Article

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