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View SchemaElectron Mobility in Dense Argon Gas at Several Temperatures
| Authors | A. F. Borghesani, Peter Lamp |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0210104 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0210104 |
Abstract
The mobility $\mu$ of excess electrons in dense Argon gas has been measured as a function of the applied electric field $E$ and of the gas density N at several temperatures in the range $142.6<T<200$ K, encompassing the critical temperature Tc=150.86 K. We report here measurements at densities up to N?7 nm$^{-3}$, close to the critical density, $N_c \approx$ 8.1 nm$^{-3}$, reached for the isotherm closest to the critical one. At all temperatures, below as well as above Tc, and up to moderately high densities, the density-normalized mobility $\mu N$ shows the usual electric field dependence present in a gas with a Ramsauer-Townsend minimum due to the mainly attractive electron-atom interaction. mN is constant and field independent for small values of $E,$ shows a maximum for a reduced field $E/N \approx$ 4 mTd, and then decreases rapidly with the field, approximately proportional to $(E/N)^{-1/2}.$ The zero-field density-normalized mobility $\mu_0 N, $for all T>$T_c,$ shows the well known anomalous positive density effect, i.e., m0N increases with increasing N, confirming previous results obtained for T=300 K and 162.7 K. Below Tc, however, $\mu_0 N$ does not show the expected anomalous positive density effect, but it rather features a broad maximum. This appears to be a crossover behavior between the positive density effect shown for T>Tc and the small negative effect previously observed for T$\approx$ 90 K. In any case, the data at all temperatures confirm the interpretation of the anomalous density effect as being essentially due by the density-dependent quantum shift of the electron ground state kinetic energy in a disordered medium as a result of multiple scattering (MS) processes, although other MS processes do influence the outcome of the experiment.
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