Numéro
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 40, Numéro C7, Juillet 1979
XIVe Conférence Internationale sur les Phénomènes d'Ionisation dans les Gaz / XIVth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases
Page(s) C7-15 - C7-16
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1979707
XIVe Conférence Internationale sur les Phénomènes d'Ionisation dans les Gaz / XIVth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases

J. Phys. Colloques 40 (1979) C7-15-C7-16

DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:1979707

FORMATION AND DESTRUCTION OF NEON MOLECULAR IONS IN TOWNSEND DISCHARGES

P.A.M. Van Der Kraan, J.W.H. Dielis et F.J. de Hoog.

Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.


Abstract
As a part of a more comprehensive mass spectrometric study of Townsend discharges we have investigated the termolecular association reaction of atomic neon ions in their parent gas as well as the loss of the resulting molecular neon ions in dissociative collisions under various discharge conditions. Both reactions can be represented by the equation Ne+ + 2Ne ⇄ Ne2+ + Ne (1) Molecular ions are also formed by associative ionization from highly excited States of the neon atom |1|.