A. Dohrn et al., STARK-BROADENING AND SHIFT OF THE FIRST 2 PASCHEN LINES OF HYDROGEN, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 53(6), 1996, pp. 6389-6395
The broadening and shift of the first two Lines of the Paschen series
of hydrogen have been investigated both experimentally and theoretical
ly. The application of an earlier developed Green's-function approach
predicts a nonlinear behavior of the shift of the Paschen a line that
is confirmed by the observations. The experiments have been carried ou
t applying a wall-stabilized are running in neon or argon seeded with
hydrogen. The electron density range covered by the experiments is 0.5
x 10(16) cm(-3) to 25 x 10(16) cm(-3).