Studies of Ion-Ion Recombination using Flowing Afterglow Plasmas

摘要: Binary positive-ion negative-ion mutual neutralization viz: A+ + B− ➜ C D (1) can be an important loss process for ionization in low pressure ionized gases containing electron attaching species, example oxygen, oxides of nitrogen, halogens, etc. It is therefore potentially many familiar plasma media such as flames, gas lasers and the Earth’s ionosphere. Because Coulombic nature these interations cross-sections, δ1, at energies very large (≳10−12cm2) but we shall see δ1 varies over a few orders magnitude depending on interaction energy. At onset it should stated that this paper sake simplicity use term binary ionic recombination to describe although clearly misleading description.