Computation of speed distributions for ions in drift tubes
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 8 (17) , L461-L464
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/8/17/005
Abstract
The speed distribution of O+ ions drifting through helium gas under the influence of an electric field is computed by a Monte Carlo simulation. The average energy agrees with previous analytic estimates, but the distributions differ significantly from those observed in a recent experiment. The distributions show considerable distortion from the Maxwell-Boltzmann shape.Keywords
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