TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF HELIUM TRANSFER CROSS SECTIONS.

Abstract

Helium gas at a pressure of 63 microns and variable temperature has been excited by the impact of 100 eV electrons. At this pressure atomic collisions are plentiful and the excitation energy is thereby transferred from one state to another, primarily from singlet states to singlet and triplet D states. The 'multiple state' transfer process (transfer from N-singlet-P to nF and cascade from nF to lower singlet and triplet D states) is examined in light of the data acquired on the density of singlet P states for n from 3 through 8, singlet D states for n from 4 through 6, and triplet D states for n from 3 through 10. These data were acquired at 8 temperatures in the range from 300 to 1000K. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0637193

Entities

People

  • John D. Jobe
  • Robert M. St. John

Organizations

  • University of Oklahoma

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charged Particles
  • Collisions
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Excitation
  • Fermions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics