UV continuum emission and diagnostics of hydrogen-containing non-equilibrium plasmas

Details UV continuum emission and diagnostics of hydrogen-containing non-equilibrium plasmas UV continuum emission and diagnostics of hydrogen-containing non-equilibrium plasmas

1998-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9804008v3

Phys. Rev. E, 59 1999 3526-3543

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Plasma Physics

REVTeX, 25 pages + 12 figures + 9 tables. Phys. Rev. E, eprint replaced because of resubmission to journal after referee's 2nd

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.59.3526

For the first time the emission of the radiative dissociation continuum of the hydrogen molecule ($a^{3}\Sigma_{g}^{+} \to b^{3}\Sigma_{u}^{+}$ electronic transition) is proposed to be used as a source of information for the spectroscopic diagnostics of non-equilibrium plasmas. The detailed analysis of excitation-deactivation kinetics, rate constants of various collisional and radiative transitions and fitting procedures made it possible to develop two new methods of diagnostics of: (1) the ground $X^{1}\Sigma_{g}^{+}$ state vibrational temperature $T_{\text{vib}}$ from the relative intensity distribution, and (2) the rate of electron impact dissociation $(d[\mbox{H$_{2}$}]/dt)_{\text{diss}}$ from the absolute intensity of the continuum. A known method of determination of $T_{\text{vib}}$ from relative intensities of Fulcher-$\alpha$ bands was seriously corrected and simplified due to the revision of $d \to a$ transition probabilities and cross sections of $d \gets X$ electron impact excitation. General considerations are illustrated with examples of experiments in pure hydrogen capillary-arc and H$_{2}$+Ar microwave discharges.

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