Three-Body Capture—Autoionization: A Mechanism for Vibrational Deexcitation of Molecular Ions in a Plasma
- 1 November 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 8 (5) , 2507-2513
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.8.2507
Abstract
The recently measured associative ionization rates in helium plasmas indicate an extremely rapid vibrational relaxation of the resulting molecular ions. Autoionization of weakly bound (high-) molecular states, in near Saha equilibrium with the molecular ions in the corresponding vibrational level , is shown to yield the required rates of vibrational deexcitation.
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