Electron detachment in oxygen

Abstract
Using a double ionization chamber in one half of which negative ions are formed and in the other half of which they suffer detachment, experiments on the collisional detachment from O3-and O2-in oxygen at E/p at 20 degrees C equal to 45-50 V cm-1torr-1give values for the detachment coefficient per unit pressure delta /p approximately 0.01. Pressure variations (20-60 torr) are discussed. For Townsend discharges in these circumstances in oxygen detachment is thus relatively unimportant, in that delta << eta (the attachment coefficient).

This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit: