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Ion swarm analysis in electric field with the transport equation

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Acta Physica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

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The drift of an ion packet of finite thickness in a constant electric field was calculated for various initial field-direction density distributions. Detailed calculation on constant and Gaussian field-direction distributions were performed. The ion flux distributions resulting from the calculations have been compared with the measurement results obtained by drift tube experiments; the figures show a fair agreement. Fitting side-by-side the flux distributions resulting from theoretical calculations and the measured results the drift velocity, mobility, diffusion and the ion-molecule reaction parameter by drift tube experiments can be calculated.

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    O. J. Orient

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Orient, O.J. Ion swarm analysis in electric field with the transport equation. Acta Physica 35, 247–260 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03159761

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