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We study how the efficiencies of resonant electron–ion recombination processes in rare-gas-mixture plasmas depend on the deviation of the electron-energy distribution functions from the Maxwellian distribution. Our calculations demonstrate that nonequilibrium distributions commonly encountered in the experiment may lead to strong increases or decreases of the respective rate constants of three-body and dissociative recombination processes. The dependences of the results on the electronic temperature and on the principal quantum number of the Rydberg state in the final channels of the reactions are analyzed.
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Kislov, K.S., Narits, A.A. & Lebedev, V.S. Effect of Nonequilibrium Electron-Energy Distributions on Efficiency of Rydberg State Population via Resonant Recombination. J Russ Laser Res 43, 653–666 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10946-022-10092-9
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