A shock tube study of line broadening in a temperature range of 6100 to 8300 K

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Plasma Resonance, Pressure Broadening, Shock Tubes, Spectral Line Width, Stark Effect, Aerosols, Nonuniform Plasmas, Plasma Spectra, Van Der Waals Forces

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Line widths of the Ca(II) 3968 A and Na(I) 5890 A resonance lines broadened by electric microfields in a plasma were measured. A pressure-driven shock tube was used as the light source. Radiation from the equilibrium region behind the reflected shock wave was studied using a rapid scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer. Electron and argon atom densities of about 8 x 10 to the 16th and 1 x 10 to the 19th/cu cm, respectively, were achieved at the relatively low temperature of around 7500 K by vaporizing a cesium powder that had been added to the shock tube as a solid aerosol in argon gas. The measured line widths were predominantly Stark broadened by the electrons and ions in the plasma, although Doppler, van der Waals, instrument function and optical depth effects had to be taken into account.

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