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Possible use of recombination for selective effects on the populations of excited atomic and ionic levels. I

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Studies of recombination in a plasma of moderate density are reviewed. Conclusions are drawn regarding the possible use of ternary recombination to produce elevated populations of high-lying excited atomic and ionic levels and regarding the conditions in a gas-discharge plasma which provide the sharpest differences among these populations, with the higher-lying levels populated predominantly. There are additional recombination processes which could produce elevated populations in certain cases in the high-lying excited levels of atoms and ions haying displaced levels: radiationless two-particle recombination and ternary recombination of ions formed by the stripping of an electron from an inner shell.

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  1. V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute, Tomsk State University, USSR

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, No. 3, pp. 104–111, March, 1971.

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Semenova, O.P. Possible use of recombination for selective effects on the populations of excited atomic and ionic levels. I. Soviet Physics Journal 14, 372–377 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00822273

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