
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Viehland, Larry A. 
T1  - Theoretical Answers to Some Experimental Questions about Gaseous Ion Transport
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 1997
VL  - 50
IS  - 3
SP  - 671
EP  - 682
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/P96067 
N2  - It is shown that the diffusion coefficients parallel to the electric field in an ion swarm experiment are greater than the perpendicular diffusion coefficients at low values of E/N, the ratio of the electric field strength to the gas number density, but that at high E/N the two are approximately equal or the inequality is reversed. For electron swarms the inequalities are the reverse of those for ion swarms, unless there is a significant Ramsauer minimum in the momentum-transfer cross section. A second point is that for many ion&#8211;atom systems the zero-field mobility is not close to its polarisation limit even when the gas temperature is 4.35 K. It is also shown that the unusual mobilities observed for Ar+ ions in He gas at 4.35 K are not due to quantum-mechanical (resonant scattering) effects as postulated by the experimenters. Finally, it is shown that it is possible to compute gaseous ion transport coefficients for molecular ions from a knowledge of the fundamental interaction potentials rather than from assumed models for the cross sections. 
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