Kinetic Description of the Stationary Band‐Like Weakly Turbulent Beam Discharge Plasma in Hydrogen. I. Basic Equations — Numerical Approach — Ionization and Dissociation Budget

Abstract

On the basis of the electron Boltzmann equation and of the balances for the charge carriers (e, H⁺, H₂⁺, H₃⁺), the H‐atoms and the metastable H(2s)‐atoms for the H/H₂‐mixture the behaviour of the weakly turbulent, band‐like electron‐beam discharge plasma in hydrogen has been calculated taking into account the main collision and transport processes. In dependence of the normalized discharge length, the life time of the neutral particles in the band‐like plasma and the electron beam generated turbulence energy density the ionization and dissociation budget and in particular the most important electron‐heavy particle collision rates, which appear in the balance equation system, are investigated in the present part of our paper. In a second part the results related to the budget of the ions and the metastable atomic state will be reported and an analysis of the main processes in the balances will be made.