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Drift tube exoeriments have been used to investigate the behavior of low density ion swarms, with applied electric fields, since the 1930’s. Starting with the work of Tyndall and of Bradbury and Nielsen it was recognized that the evolution of the swarm consisted of a steady drift of the swarm center and diffusion out from this center. Thus the experimental data may be analyzed in terms of a drift velocity, \(\vec{v}\), and a diffusion coefficient, D, such that the ion density at position \(\vec{r}\) at time t is \( n(\vec{r},t) = C{\left[ {4\pi Dt} \right]^{{ - 3/2}}}\exp {[\vec{r} - \vec{v}t)^{2}}/4Dt] \)(1) assuming a concentration of C ions at the origin at time zero.
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Gatland, I.R. (1984). Determination of Ion-Atom Potentials from Mobility Experiments. In: Lindinger, W., Märk, T.D., Howorka, F. (eds) Swarms of Ions and Electrons in Gases. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8773-9_4
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