COLLISIONAL DE-EXCITATION RATES FOR THE FIRST NEGATIVE AND SECOND POSITIVE SYSTEMS OF NITROGEN.

Abstract

Nitrogen and nitrogen-carbon dioxide gas mixtures were excited by 1.5 MeV protons from a Van De Graaff generator. Intensity versus pressure data were recorded and plotted for the first negative (lamda=3914.4A) and for the second positive (lamda=3371.3A) transitions of molecular nitrogen. With the use of theoretical equations and the experimental data the reaction rates, k, and collisional de-excitation cross sections were calculated. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0710355

Entities

People

  • Ronald Francis Walters

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Equations
  • Excitation
  • Experimental Data
  • Generators
  • Intensity
  • Mathematics
  • Nitrogen
  • Transitions
  • Van De Graaff Generators

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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