Collisional recombination in nonideal plasmas

We suggest a model that allows one to consider the kinetics of collisional recombination in a nonideal plasma and to calculate its rate by the molecular dynamics method. We have found that the dependence of the collisional recombination rate on the plasma coupling parameter differs significantly from the extrapolation of the three-body recombination rate to the nonideal region. The recombination rate in a strongly coupled plasma has been found to decrease with increasing coupling parameter. We have established that the effect of plasma nonideality increases with ion charge. The recombination kinetics is shown to depend significantly on how the ions are arranged in the medium. Collisional recombination transforms into three-body one as the coupling parameter of the medium decreases.     

Ionization and recombination in plasmas

Ionization and recombination in a plasma are considered. They give rise to a system of kinetic equations with cubic source terms. An existence theorem is proved for such a system.     

双电子复合过程在激光在Au靶耦合物理中的作用

 描述了考虑双电子复合过程的平均原子模型,通过与流体力学耦合计算,对双电子复合过程在激光－Au靶耦合物理中的作用进行了总体计算,结果表明,双电子复合对等离子体状态及X光转换等有明显影响,特别表现在晕区电子温度、电离度的降低,激光－X光的转换效率的提高以及X光的发光区域变宽等。     

过电离等离子体复合升温和绝热膨胀

给出了类H—C离3d5/2-2p3/2跃迁复合机制产生X光激光的电子密度-电子温度增益目标区域，研究了电离转复合处等离子体特征、复合阶段电子密度变化规律及影响电子温度的两个主要因素：作功冷却与复合升温，并给出了这两个因素的近似表达式．     

Distribution function and diffusion of electrons in the Rydberg energy space in a nonideal ultracold plasma

The distribution functions and diffusion coefficient of electrons in the Rydberg energy space in an ultracold plasma are obtained as functions of temperature by numerically solving a system of kinetic balance equations. As the initial conditions, the results obtained in previous papers by the molecular dynamics method are used. From calculation of Rydberg electron fluxes, the temperature dependence of the recombination coefficient is obtained, in good agreement with the recombination coefficient calculated previously by the molecular dynamics method.     

Contribution of near threshold states to recombination in plasmas

Resonance states in atoms or ions at low energies can control the rates of important plasma processes (e.g., dielectronic recombination). We examine the role of states at negative energies just below the ionization threshold of the recombined system and find that they can contribute as much, or more, to recombination as positive energy states. In plasmas, negative energy states can be populated by three body recombination, photorecombination, or continuum lowering. Properly including these negative energy states in a theoretical treatment of plasma processes can change the thermally averaged rate coefficients and, in some cases, removes much of the sensitivity to the energy of a state.     

Recombination of a coulomb plasma and nonbinary interaction effects

A theory has been constructed for the recombination of a Coulomb plasma with allowance for the anomalous nature of diffusion along the energy axis in the negative energy region of Coulomb particles. These anomalies, which were revealed earlier by first-principles numerical simulation, are due to the dynamic memory of a classical Coulomb plasma. Two kinetic models are presented. The first takes random collisions with a hypothetical gas of two-level atoms into account. Comparison of the results of this model with first-principles calculations shows that the characteristic of the diffusion coefficients is missing. The second model takes the discrete nature of bound states into account. Calculations show that for an electron-hole plasma the recombination rate deviates substantially from the results of conventional theory only when either the recombination time is very short or the effect is masked by radiative recombination. For ion-ion plasma, the deviations from conventional recombination theory run to several orders of magnitude. This is of interest in relation to ball lightning.Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 68–89, January, 1993.     

Autoresonant excitation of antiproton plasmas

We demonstrate controllable excitation of the center-of-mass longitudinal motion of a thermal antiproton plasma using a swept-frequency autoresonant drive. When the plasma is cold, dense, and highly collective in nature, we observe that the entire system behaves as a single-particle nonlinear oscillator, as predicted by a recent theory. In contrast, only a fraction of the antiprotons in a warm plasma can be similarly excited. Antihydrogen was produced and trapped by using this technique to drive antiprotons into a positron plasma, thereby initiating atomic recombination.     

Effect of dielectronic recombination on the charge-state distribution and soft X-ray line intensity of laser-produced carbon plasma

The effect of dielectronic recombination in determining charge-state distribution and radiative emission from a laser-produced carbon plasma has been investigated in the collisional radiative ionization equilibrium. It is observed that the relative abundances of different ions in the plasma, and soft X-ray emission intensity get significantly altered when dielectronic recombination is included. Theoretical estimates of the relative population of CVI to CV ions and ratio of line intensity emitted from them for two representative formulations of dielectronic recombination are presented.     

Kinetics of Oxygen Atom Production in R.F. Discharges of Moderate Pressures

The dissociation of molecular oxygen has been studied in a radiofrequency plasma at a pressure of 20 torr in a flow system. The results show that the main channel for dissociation is via electron excitation to the Herzberg and Schumann systems with negligible contribution of the channel involving the O₂(a¹Δg) metastable. While oxygen atom recombination can be followed outside the discharge region, kinetic data show that recombination within the discharge is effectively suppressed, probably as a consequence of a recombination assisted dissociation mechanism. This leads to high concentrations of O-atoms at the discharge exit.     

Recombination in nonideal ion gas discharge afterglow plasma

Recombination rates in ion plasma are presented that are obtained by processing experimental data on gas discharge afterglow in fluorine and sulfur hexafluoride media. A theoretical explanation is given to the slowing down of the recombination rate of plasma in such media as the degree of Coulomb nonideality of the media increases. An additional factor for the suppression of recombination—solvation of ions—is considered. It is shown that, in the case of discharge afterglow plasma in a fluorine medium, the process of recombination proceeds in two stages with the formation of intermediate metastable ion pairs produced by ion-molecule clusters. In a sulfur hexafluoride medium, the formation of such pairs does not have a significant effect on the recombination rate.     

Three-particle recombination of non-hydrogen-like ions in the presence of plasma microfields

The effect of electric and magnetic plasma microfields on three-particle electron-ion recombination via the highly excited states of a hydrogen-like ion is studied. It is shown that electric microfields impede this process, and at some electron temperature it ceases for sufficiently high plasma density. Magnetic microfields speed up recombination via low-lying states only negligibly. The rate of such recombination into non-hydrogen-like ion states is comparatively higher than for the equivalent hydrogen-like ion states. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 114, 1230–1241 (October 1998)     

类钠铜离子软X射线激光三体复合泵浦机制的研究

 详细研究了类钠铜离子激光等离子体中的各种复合过程，并从理论上描述了类钠铜离子软X射线激光的低温三体复合泵浦机制。     

Recombination properties of Rydberg nonequilibrium plasma created by dye laser

Ultracold Rydberg plasma formed by a dye laser has been studied theoretically. Recombination properties in the presence of three-body collisions in hydrogen-like plasma have been investigated. We have shown that the existing calculation models for three-body recombination (Thomson model, diffusion approximation, and modified diffusion approximation) work only in the high-electron-temperature region—more than or equal to 1 eV. When the electron temperature is substantially less 1 eV, we have found the strong dependence of process probability on the energy of free particle. As a result, there is a drastic slowdown recombination in the region, where the three-body recombination dominates. Another reason for this slowdown of the recombination deals with the increment nonideality parameter. Effect of slowdown of recombination with free-body collisions can be reduced to the situation when the thermal equilibrium is set earlier than the ionization equilibrium, and, hence, the formation of metastable structure is possible in the plasma. Also this effect can cause the inverse population on Rydberg levels.     

Collision and recombination driven instabilities in variable charged dusty plasmas

The dust-acoustic instability driven by recombination of electrons and ions on the surface of charged and variably-charged dust grains as well as by collisions in dusty plasmas with significant pressure of background neutrals have been theoretically investigated. The recombination driven instability is shown to be dominant in the long wavelength regime even in the presence of dust-neutral and ion-neutral collisions, while in the shorter wavelength regime, the dust-neutral collision is found to play a major role. In an earlier research work, the dust-neutral collision was neglected in comparison to the effect due to the recombination for estimating the dust-acoustic instability; later the other report shows that the recombination effect is negligible in the presence of dust-neutral collisions. In line of this present situation our investigation revealed that the recombination is more important than dust-neutral collisions in laboratory plasma and fusion plasma, while the dust-neutral collision frequency is dominant in the interstellar plasmas. The effects of ion and dust densities and ion streaming on the recombination and collision driven mode in parameter regimes relevant for many experimental studies on dusty plasmas have also been calculated.     

X射线激光器研究初步结果

利用等离子体复合抽运X射线激光器模型和四能级速率方程,我们导出了在激光等离子体体系中发生位子数反转所须满足的条件。在这个基础上,通过分析不同结构靶的等离子体性质,我们发现当激光辐照复合镁靶时,在镁的类氦离子1S4P-1S3P能级间的粒子数反转。另外,我们在中等Z系例元素等离子体中也得到类氖离子系统粒子数反转证据并证明这些现象主要是由等离子体复合而引起的。 上述实验证明了我们的理论计算结果。     

Coherent microwave rayleigh scattering from resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization in argon

Multiphoton ionization and electron recombination processes are studied in argon using coherent microwave Rayleigh scattering from a localized, resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization produced plasma. A time dependent one-dimensional plasma dynamic model is developed to predict the time evolution of the microwave scattering from the plasma. Experimental results of the argon ionization spectrum and electron recombination rates are in good agreement with the model predictions.     

A macroscopic system of Einstein-Maxwell equations for a system of interacting particles with different masses

A macroscopic system of Einstein-Maxwell equations for systems of particles with different masses is derived up to the second order in the interaction. The dominant type of interaction in this system are electromagnetic interactions between particles (for example, a radiation-dominated cosmological plasma in the expanding universe before the moment of recombination). The results of [1], which can only be applied to systems of interacting particles with equal masses, are generalized.     

A Kinetic Model for the Reactions of Co and H2 to CH4 and C2H2 in a Flow Microwave Discharge Reactor

A kinetic model was developed to describe the reactions of CO and H2 to CH4 and C2H2in a microwave plasma. The experimental system consisted of a 24 mm I.D. tubular quartz reactor which passed through a microwave cavity. A variable-incident power waveguide system could supply up to 800 watts of incident microwave power to the cavity. The reactant gas mixture of H2 and CO flowed through the reactor, where a plasma was maintained under pressures of 20 - 100 mm Hg. The reactor effluent was analyzed by IR spectroscopy for CH4 and C2H2. Conversions of up to 5.3% CO to C2H2 and 7.2% CO to CH4 were observed. A 26-reaction kinetic model was developed and fitted to the experimental data. The plasma reactor was modeled in two zones: a discharge zone where electron-impact dissociations produce H, C, and O, and a downstream recombination zone where the atomic species from the discharge recombine. The discharge zone was modeled as a well-mixed reactor, and the recombination zone was modeled as a plug-flow reactor. The model was able to explain the asymptotic shape of the observed conversion versus residence time data; the effect is due to a kinetic limitation. This also explains why the conversions obtained in the plasma cannot be predicted by thermodynamic equilibrium.     

Population inversion in recombining hydrogen plasma

The collisional-radiative model is applied to a recombining hydrogen plasma in order to investigate plasma conditions in which a population inversion between the energy levels of hydrogen can be generated. Population inversion is expected in plasmas for which three-body recombination makes a large contribution to the recombining processes and the effective recombination rate is larger than a critical value for a given electron density and temperature. Calculated results are presented in figures and tables.