Light Scattering from Weakly Ionized Nonhomogeneous Plasmas
- 26 March 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 30 (13) , 585-588
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.30.585
Abstract
Rayleigh scattering is used to obtain the radial gas density and temperature distributions in low-current Ar arcs. A comparison with spectroscopic results indicates large deviations from local thermodynamic equilibrium. The possibilities of determining excited-state density distributions and transition probabilities by Rayleigh scattering are indicated.Keywords
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