Chemi-ionization in Collisions between Helium Metastable Atoms and Argon
- 7 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 29 (6) , 321-324
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.29.321
Abstract
We have measured cross sections for chemi-ionization in thermal energy collisions of and metastable atoms with argon using both crossed-beams and gas-cell techniques. The results indicate that several earlier measurements of these cross sections were in error.
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