Quenching and excitation transfer in thehelium sublevels in a low-pressure glow discharge
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 21 (1), 188-199
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.21.188
Abstract
The collisional and radiative processes leading in a glow discharge to quenching and and excitation transfer in the helium sublevels are investigated by means of a laser perturbation method. Laser-induced population perturbations are solutions of coupled rate equations, the coefficients of which are related to radiative coefficients and collisional excitation cross sections. An accurate numerical method of data analysis (the "identification method") is developed in which the rate coefficients are determined so as to minimize the difference between experimental curves and those calculated from the model. In the pressure and current intensity investigated, Torr, mA, only radiative and atom-atom collision processes contribute to quenching and excitation transfer in the levels. Numerical identification of the experiments provides a nearly complete set of rate coefficients and thermally averaged cross sections. In particular, excitation transfers predominate over the ones. This results from the near-resonant character of the He-He* inelastic collision processes.
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