@article {4316,
	title = {The coupling of electron thermalization and electron attachment in CCl4/Ar and CCl4/Ne mixtures},
	journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
	volume = {108},
	number = {4},
	year = {1998},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: YR488Times Cited: 11Cited Reference Count: 61},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {1587-1600},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The relaxation of a nonequilibrium distribution of electrons in a mixture of CCl4 with either Ar or Ne is studied. In this paper, electron-CCl4 and electron-inert gas elastic collisions, vibrationally inelastic collisions between electrons and CCl4, as well as the electron attachment reaction with CCl4, are included in the analysis. The time dependent electron energy distribution function is determined from the Boltzmann equation and the energy relaxation times are determined. The coupling of the thermalization process and the attachment process are discussed in detail. The results from the calculations are analyzed analogous to experimental studies, and the methodology of the experimental reduction of the data is studied. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.},
	keywords = {ARGON, CONDUCTIVITY, CROSS-SECTIONS, DEGRADATION, development, FIELD DEPENDENCE, MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION, RARE-GAS MODERATORS, SF6, SWARM, TRANSPORT},
	isbn = {0021-9606},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000071500300035},
	author = {Kowari, K. and Leung, K. and Shizgal, B. D.}
}
@article {3725,
	title = {On the existence of a steady electron distribution for systems with electron attachment: Ar-CCl4 mixtures},
	journal = {Chemical Physics Letters},
	volume = {260},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {1996},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: VJ539Times Cited: 1Cited Reference Count: 18},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {365-370},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The relaxation of a nonequilibrium distribution of electrons in a mixture of Ar and CCl4 is studied. In a previous paper [J. Phys. B 34 (1991) 2909], Shizgal demonstrated that with the neglect of vibrationally inelastic collisions, a nonequilibrium steady electron distribution does occur even with the loss of electrons. The rate of disappearance of electrons due to attachment is rapid for high concentrations of CCl4. In this Letter, we extend the previous analysis to include inelastic collisions and find that for CCl4 and Ar mixtures there is no steady electron distribution function with increasing molecular gas concentrations.},
	keywords = {ARGON, CROSS-SECTIONS, DEGRADATION, GAS, SF6, THERMALIZATION},
	isbn = {0009-2614},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1996VJ53900008},
	author = {Kowari, K. and Shizgal, B.}
}
@article {7108,
	title = {A UNIFORM WKB ANALYSIS OF THE COUPLING OF ELECTRON-ATTACHMENT AND THERMALIZATION IN GASES},
	journal = {Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics},
	volume = {24},
	number = {13},
	year = {1991},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: FX594Times Cited: 11Cited Reference Count: 44},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {2909-2923},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The presence of small amounts of strongly electronegative gases such as SF6 and CCl4 can greatly perturb from equilibrium the electron energy distribution function in a variety of electron devices. The effect of the addition of these electron attaching gases on the relaxation behaviour of a non-equilibrium electron distribution is studied with a linear Fokker-Planck equation. The time dependence of the electron mobility as well as other transport properties can be expressed as a sum of exponential terms with each term characterized by an eigenvalue of the Fokker-Planck operator. This eigenvalue problem can be transformed to a Schrodinger equation with a potential function parametrized by the electron-atom cross sections, the electric field strength and the gas temperature. In the present paper, the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are calculated with a WKB semiclassical approximation and compared with exact results. The application of the WKB approximation provides a useful way to calculate these strongly perturbed distributions. The specific applications in this paper are for the relaxation of electrons in the inert gases in the presence of small amounts of SF6 or CCl4.},
	keywords = {CROSS-SECTIONS, DISCHARGES, FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION, MIXTURES, MODERATORS, RARE, relaxation, SF6, SWARM DEVELOPMENT, TRANSPORT-COEFFICIENTS},
	isbn = {0953-4075},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1991FX59400007},
	author = {Shizgal, B.}
}
