Calculation of swarm parameters in xenon at high E/N by a Monte Carlo simulation method

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Swarm parameters (electron drift velocities, ratios of electron radial diffusion coefficient to mobility, mean electron energies and electron energy distribution functions) have been calculated in xenon by a Monte Carlo simulation method Values of these parameters have been obtained for ratios of the electric field to the gas number density E/N from 85 to 8500 Td (E/p0=30 approximately 3000 V cm-1 Torr-1 at 0 degrees C). Calculated results were compared with available experimental and other calculated data. Calculations relating to the non-equilibrium distance d0 in front of the cathode and non-equilibrium distance near the anode were also carried out. For these calculations, elastic momentum transfer cross-sections and inelastic cross-sections up to 104 eV reported in the author's preceding paper (see ibid., vol.16, p.581-9, 1983) were used.