ATOMIC COLLISION PROCESSES RELATING TO THE IONOSPHERE

Abstract

Measurements of the attachment cross sections in O3 reveal no dependence on temperature below 361K in the energy range 0-4 eV. Measurements of the momentum transfer cross section Qm in N2, required for the deduction of the total inelastic collision cross section Summation Qx from the product Qm Summation Qx measured by a high pressure beam technique, show serious discrepancies with published data. Possible reasons for this are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1970
Accession Number
AD0704885

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People

  • Arthur V. Phelps
  • P. J. Chantry

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accumulators
  • Attachment
  • Collisions
  • Contracts
  • Data Analysis
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Density
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • High Pressure
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Measurement
  • Momentum
  • Momentum Transfer
  • Scattering
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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