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Recombination of electrons with water cluster ions in the afterglow of a high-voltage nanosecond discharge
Ist Teil von
Journal of physics. D, Applied physics, 2018-07, Vol.51 (26), p.264003
Ort / Verlag
IOP Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The results of the experimental and numerical study of high-voltage nanosecond discharge afterglow in H2O:N2 and H2O:O2 mixtures are presented for room temperature and at pressures from 2 to 5 Torr. Time-resolved electron density during the plasma decay was measured with a microwave interferometer for initial electron densities in the range between 1 × 1012 and 2 × 1012 cm−3. Calculations showed that the plasma decay was controlled by recombination of thermalized electrons with H3O+(H2O)n ions for n from 0 to 4. Agreement between calculated and measured electron density histories was obtained only when using the recombination coefficients measured in the pulsed plasma afterglow experiments. The electron densities calculated using the data from the storage ring experiments were consistently greater than the values measured in this work for all conditions. It was concluded that the measurements of recombination coefficients for H3O+(H2O)n ions in the pulsed plasma afterglow were more appropriate for simulating the properties of high-density plasmas with high fractions of H2O, O2 and N2, such as discharge plasmas in water vapor and in humid air instead of the measurements in the storage ring experiments.