5TH VIRIAL-COEFFICIENT OF A 2-COMPONENT MIXTURE OF HARD DISCS

The fifth virial coefficient is computed of a binary mixture composed of different-size hard discs with additive diameters. The irreducible cluster integrals are evaluated numerically using the Monte Carlo meth od. As for a hard-sphere mixture in three dimensions (F. Saija, G. Fiu mara, and P. V. Giaquinta, 1996, Molec. Phys., 89, 1181), it is found that the fifth virial coefficient becomes slightly negative in the reg ime of high dilution of the larger-disc component when the diameter ra tio of the two species is lower than 0.2.