Journal article
Three-body reaction rate in spin-polarized atomic hydrogen
Physics letters. A, v 81(1), pp 61-64
1981
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Abstract
An order-of-magnitude estimate of the three-body reaction of spin-polarized atomic hydrogen is obtained by expressing this rate as a product of the gas-kinetic reaction rate and the probability of a spin-flip transition. The former is estimated from experimental results on atomic hydrogen and the latter by using a Landau-Zener type approach. We find
k
3 (H↑) ≈ 5 × 10
−40 cm
6 atom
−2 s
−1, which would lead to a density of 10
18 atoms cm
−3 for times of the order of 10
3 s.
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- Title
- Three-body reaction rate in spin-polarized atomic hydrogen
- Creators
- J.M. Yuan - Drexel UniversityT.K. Lim - Drexel UniversityL.H. Nosanow - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Physics letters. A, v 81(1), pp 61-64
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1981KZ47400019
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-49149136990
- Other Identifier
- 991019182758604721
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