STUDY OF RECOMBINATION PHENOMENA. VOLUME II. RECOMBINATION IN PLASMA

Abstract

Volume I of this report (AD-328 623) discussed the radiative and collisional processes which determine the recombination rate in a plasma. A general expression was derived for the recombination rate, and numerical values were given for a hydrogen plasma in the temperature range 250 K to 64,000 K and for all electron densities. These results were applied to an expanding hydrogen plasma and to the expanding debris from a nuclear explosion, and indicated that in an explosion occurring in a vacuum, significant recombination may take place at times later than a millisecond after the detonation. Volume I contains seven papers dealing with the physics of recombination in plasmas. Included are the radiative transition probabilities for a number of atoms and ions obtained from a theory of atomic screening constants.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0273694

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  • A. Dalgarno
  • E. Ashley

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atomic Structure
  • Atoms
  • Azimuthal Quantum Numbers
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electrons
  • Exclusion Principle
  • Ground State
  • Nuclear Properties
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Quantum Numbers
  • Quantum Properties
  • Scattering
  • Spin-Orbit Interaction
  • Two Dimensional

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