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Experimental Techniques for Cross-Section Measurements

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Electron-Molecule Collisions

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Instrumentation and experimental techniques for electron-impact crosssection measurements have improved significantly in recent years. This progress has been motivated by the need for electron collision data in connection with the modeling of many practical systems (lasers, plasma devices, planetary ionospheres, chemical systems under the influence of particle bombardment, and so on) and has been aided by advances in vacuum techniques, charged and neutral particle beam technology, progress in electron energy analysis and detection, and computer developments. On one hand the reliability and accuracy of crosssection measurement techniques have reached a stage where a large body of highly accurate (few %) cross sections can now be determined with moderate efforts. On the other hand refinements and sophistication in the experimental techniques make it possible to study and distinguish individual processes which have been averaged over in previous measurements (e.g., individual vibrational— rotational transitions, competing and overlapping dissociation and ionization processes, magnetic sublevel excitation amplitudes, etc.).

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Trajmar, S., Register, D.F. (1984). Experimental Techniques for Cross-Section Measurements. In: Shimamura, I., Takayanagi, K. (eds) Electron-Molecule Collisions. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2357-0_6

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