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Collisional — Radiative Model of Helium Plasma. I. Description of the Model
Author(s) -
Slavík J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.2150310605
Subject(s) - metastability , helium , radiative transfer , plasma , atomic physics , ionization , electron , physics , population , materials science , ion , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , demography , sociology
We present a collisional‐radiative model of helium plasma with explicit inclusion of metastable state influences and give results of numerical calculations of population coefficients and effective reaction rates (generalization of effective ionization and recombination coefficients for the case when metastable states are not explicitly included) for a large region of electron densities and temperatures for optically thin and thick helium plasma. The model is described in this paper.