Gn. Malovic et al., ELECTRON-EXCITATION COEFFICIENTS FOR 2P STATE OF NEON, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 129(3), 1997, pp. 317-322
Electron excitation rate coefficients for the 2p state of neon atom, (
from 2p(1)-2p(10) in Paschen notation) have been measured using an ele
ctron drift-tube technique. The absolute excitation coefficients were
obtained from the optical signal at the anode in Townsend neon dischar
ges, after correction for the detector quantum efficiency. The data we
re obtained for the electric field to neon number density ratio (E/N)
from 20 Td to 4 kTd (1 Td = 10(-21) Vm(2)). The absolute excitation co
efficients for the 2p(1) level agree with the results of Tachibana [1]
, which are the only experimental data available in the literature.