Evidence of charge exchange pumping in calcium−xenon system
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 46 (1) , 362-368
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.322249
Abstract
A flowing xenon plasma seeded with calcium was used to investigate the population mechanism for the 5s and 4d levels of Ca+. From the dependence of certain line intensity ratios on electron temperature it was concluded that charge exchange between Xe+ and Ca is the predominate mechanism for populating the 5s and 4d levels. Comparison with intensity ratios obtained in Ca−Ar and Ca−Kr imply the same conclusion.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Population inversion calculations using near-resonant charge exchange as a pumping mechanismApplied Physics Letters, 1973
- Charge transfer into excited states in thermal energy collisionsJournal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, 1973