Streuung von Helium-Atomstrahlen in Edelgasen

The scattering of Helium atomic beams in rare gases is investigated by measurements of total elastic scattering cross sections. With the device described the dependence of total scattering cross sections of the relative velocity of the scattering atoms was measured. For variation of the beam velocity in the range of 1:8 a He beam source was used which could be cooled down with liquid helium from room temperature to 4.8 °K. The detector is of the universal-detector-type. A Wien filter is used as mass filter. The lowest detectable particle density is 6.3 · 10³ He-atoms/cm³. The measured scattering cross sections are in qualitative agreement with the theory ofBernstein.