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Various elementary processes in a gas discharge plasma are analyzed. Collision electron-atom processes include elastic collisions, atom excitation by electron impact, quenching of excited atoms, atom ionization and recombination of electrons and ions, collision transitions between nearby atom levels, and ion-atom processes result from elastic collisions and resonant charge exchange. Appropriate cross sections and rate constants of the processes under consideration are used for the subsequent analysis of kinetics of a gas discharge plasma.
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Smirnov, B.M. (2015). Elementary Processes in Gas Discharge Plasma. In: Theory of Gas Discharge Plasma. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11065-3_3
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