Velocity Distributions in Potassium and Thallium Atomic Beams
- 15 August 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 99 (4) , 1314-1321
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.99.1314
Abstract
A high-resolution, high-intensity, spiral velocity selector has been designed for the study of the velocity distributions of the components of atomic and molecular beams. It has been found possible to design oven slits which closely approximate the ideal aperture of kinetic theory. An analysis has been made of the velocity distributions in beams of potassium and thallium over a range of velocity from 0.3 to 2.5 times the most probable velocity in the oven. The agreement between the observed distribution and that deduced, on the basis of the assumptions that the distribution in the oven is Maxwellian and that the aperture is ideal, is very good.Keywords
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