MEASUREMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC ION REACTIONS.

Abstract

Charge transfer and charged rearrangement collision cross sections were measured at energies down to 2 eV with identification of product ions and some state selection of primary ions. Electric impact studies of molecular oxygen with high resolution provided new important information on the ionization process, while investigations of negative ions in afterglows of atmospheric gases demonstrated the comparative lack of understanding in this important aspect of atmospheric deionization. The following reactions were studied by the ionization afterglow technique: ionic recombination in O2; thermalization diffusion and electron-ion dissociative recombination in N2; attachment in gases containing NO2; attachment and electron-ion dissociative recombination in gases containing NO. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 1965
Accession Number
AD0610869

Entities

People

  • B. R. Turner
  • J. W. Mcgowan
  • M. A. Fineman
  • R. F. Stebbings
  • V. A. J. Van Lint

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afterglows
  • Attachment
  • Charge Transfer
  • Collisions
  • Contracts
  • Deionization
  • Diffusion
  • Electrons
  • High Resolution
  • Identification
  • Ionization
  • Mass Spectroscopy
  • Measurement
  • Spectroscopy

Readers

  • Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics