Electron impact transfer rates between metastable and resonant states of argon investigated by laser pump-probe technique

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 42, 2015, Pages

  Carbone, Emile ^a,b   Van Veldhuizen, Eddie ^c   Kroesen, Gerrit ^c   Sadeghi, Nader ^a,d  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d LIPHY   (France)

Author keywords

argon plasma; electron kinetics; laser pump probe technique; metastable states; rate coefficient

Indexed keywords

ARGON LASERS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; IONS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM THEORY;

4-STATE; ARGON PLASMAS; ELECTRON KINETICS; ELECTRON-IMPACT; ION CORES; LASER PUMP PROBE TECHNIQUE; LASER PUMP-PROBE; META-STABLE STATE; PUMP-PROBE TECHNIQUE; RATE COEFFICIENTS;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84945151220     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/48/42/425201     Document Type: Article

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