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P: Fachverband Plasmaphysik
P 7: Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas and their Applications III
P 7.8: Talk
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 18:45–19:00, CHE/0089
Anomalous N2+(B2Σu+) population in the discharge and the afterglow of an APPJ in N2 — •Nikita Lepikhin1, Nikolay Popov2, Dirk Luggenhölscher1, Nader Sadeghi3, and Uwe Czarnetzki1 — 1Institute for Plasma and Atomic Physics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany — 2Moscow, Russia — 3Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, LIPhy, CNRS, UMR 5588, Laboratoire des Technologies de la Microélectronique, LTM, CNRS, UMR 5129, Université de Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
An anomalously high relative density of the N2+(B2Σu+, v=0) state is observed in the plasma bulk of a nanosecond near-atmospheric pressure plasma jet in nitrogen during its quasi-DC phase and afterglow. Additional population of N2+(B2Σu+, v=0) is confirmed by analyzing the rotational structure of the (0-0) transition of the First Negative System (FNS) of nitrogen. Numerical kinetic modeling is used to identify possible mechanisms of additional N2+(B2Σu+, v=0) formation. Kinetic calculations taking into account production of N2+(B2Σu+, v=0) in reaction between the N2(a1Πg) and N2(C3Πu) states as well as in reaction of the N2(a1Πg) state with the N4+ ion describe adequately the FNS(0-0) emission dynamics and the high relative density of the N2+(B2Σu+, v=0) state observed experimentally.