Dujko, Saša, White, Ronald D., and Petrović, Zoran Lj. (2010) A multi-term boltzmann equation analysis of charged particle transport properties in electric and magnetic fields in gases. In: Proceedings of XX European Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases. TL4. pp. 1-2. From: ESCAMPIG XX 20th European Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases, 13 - 17 July 2010, Novi Sad, Serbia.

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[Extract] Since the mid to late 1990s the theoretical analysis of charged particle transport processes in neutral gases in the presence of electric and magnetic fields has advanced considerably. For electron swarms in crossed electric and magnetic fields, the advancement was motivated by the desire to overcome the limitations of the two-term approximation for solving the Boltzmann equation and various types of equivalent/effective field approximations often employed to describe the impact of a magnetic field on the transport. The first systematic multi-term analysis for electron swarms under hydrodynamic conditions in the presence of uniform dc electric and magnetic fields was given by Ness [1] and since then a considerable number of papers has been published in a relatively short time. The situation up to 2002 was reviewed by White et al. [2] where a unified multi-term theory for solving the Boltzmann equation valid for both electrons and ions in the presence of time-dependent electric and magnetic fields was presented. This theory was recently employed to study the influence of an orthogonal magnetic field on the transient behavior of the diagonal diffusion tensor elements for swarms undergoing conservative collisions only [3]. Since ionization plays a vital role in plasma maintenance any transport theory must include rate coefficients, and correctly account for the effects of non-conservative collisions on drift and diffusion. With these remarks as background, we extend the previous theory [4] and in this work we present a theoretical and numerical investigation of hydrodynamic and non-hydrodynamic charged particle swarms in neutral gases under the influence of dc and ac electric and magnetic fields when non-conservative collisions are operative with applications of non-equilibrium magnetized plasma discharges to plasma processing, gas laser discharges and drift chambers for detection particles in mind.

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