Study of Collision Effects between the Constituents of a Mixture of Helium and Nitrogen Gases When Excited by a 10-keV Electron Beam
- 15 February 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 42 (4) , 1368-1372
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1696122
Abstract
Measurements were made of the effects of collisions between nitrogen and helium excited by a 10‐kV electron beam. The interaction between the excited particles was found to give rise to an afterglow of the 3914‐Å band of N2+ on the order of 10−7 sec, which was observable at concentrations of helium greater than 75%. A departure from a Boltzmann distribution of rotational energies of the N2+ band was also measured.Keywords
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