By Professor Ratko K. Janev, William D. Langer, Dr. Douglass E. Post Jr., Dr. Kenneth Evans Jr. (auth.)
Atomic and molecular techniques play a big function in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas for a variety of stipulations, and confirm, partially, their electric, shipping, thermal, and radiation homes. The research of those and different plasma houses calls for an information of the pass sections, response cost coefficients, and inelastic power transfers for a number of collisional reactions. during this evaluate, we offer quantitative information regarding crucial collision methods happening in hy drogen, helium, and hydrogen-helium plasmas within the temperature variety from zero. 1 eV to twenty keY. the fabric offered this is in keeping with released atomic and molecular collision facts, theoretical calculations, and appro priate extrapolation and interpolation approaches. This evaluate offers the houses of every response, graphs of the pass sections and response price coeffiCients, and the coefficients of analytical matches for those amounts. We current this knowledge in a sort that might allow researchers who're now not specialists in atomic physics to exploit the knowledge simply. The authors thank their colleagues on the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and within the atomic physics group who've made many beneficial feedback for the choice and presentation o. f t. he fabric. We gratefully recognize the wonderful technical information of Elizabeth Carey for the typing, and Bernie Giehl for the drafting. This paintings was once supported partly via the U. S. division of strength agreement No. DE-AC02-76-CHO-3073. Princeton, united states R. ok. Janev W. D. Langer September, 1987 okay. Evans, Jr. , D. E.