@article {5008,
	title = {Simple analytic form for the velocity-angular-momentum distribution function of drifting linear ions},
	journal = {Physical Review A},
	volume = {63},
	number = {3},
	year = {2001},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 408HPTimes Cited: 6Cited Reference Count: 21},
	month = {Mar},
	pages = {12},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {A simple analytic form is presented for the full velocity-angular-momentum distribution function for gasphase linear ions drifting in an atomic bath gas under a constant external electric field. Predictions of temperatures, drift velocities, and alignment parameters from this form are compared in detail against molecular-dynamics calculations for NO+ drifting in helium. The form is accurate, compact, and based upon a physically motivated expansion. In essence, simple Maxwellian-like functions are generalized by allowing appropriate temperatures to become functions of velocity and rotational ang;lar momentum. Over a wide range of reduced field strengths, including the equilibrium state, this form is able to account accurately for many properties at a microscopic level with only a few adjustable parameters.},
	keywords = {ATOMIC GASES, COLLISIONAL ALIGNMENT, DYNAMICS, MOLECULES, ROTATIONAL ALIGNMENT, SCATTERING, SUPERSONIC EXPANSIONS, SWARM, TRANSPORT-COEFFICIENTS},
	isbn = {1050-2947},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000167321000041},
	author = {Baranowski, R. and Thachuk, M.}
}
@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 {2780,
	title = {A UNIFORM WENTZEL-KRAMERS-BRILLOUIN APPROACH TO ELECTRON-TRANSPORT IN MOLECULAR GASES},
	journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
	volume = {99},
	number = {10},
	year = {1993},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: MH744Times Cited: 4Cited Reference Count: 46},
	month = {Nov},
	pages = {7638-7651},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The relaxation of a nonequilibrium distribution of electrons in molecular gases, and the transient and steady electron transport properties are studied with the Boltzmann equation, which accurately accounts for elastic and inelastic electron-moderator collisions. The elastic collision operator is a self-adjoint Fokker-Planck operator, whereas the-inelastic collision term is a difference operator. We consider a discretization of the inelastic collision operator which is motivated by the discrete energy losses that occur. For small energy losses, a continuous approximation is introduced such that the inelastic collision term is approximated by a Fokker-Planck operator similar to the elastic collision operator. The transient electron transport properties are studied for an initial electron distribution function in terms of the eigenvalue spectrum of both the elastic and inelastic collision operators. The Fokker-Planck eigenvalue problem is transformed into a Schrodinger equation and the nature of the spectrum is studied in terms of the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin and supersymmetric Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximations. The methodology is applied to model systems and the transport of electrons in methane.},
	keywords = {BOLTZMANN-EQUATION ANALYSIS, COEFFICIENTS, DIFFUSION, FIELD DEPENDENCE, MODERATORS, NEUTRAL GASES, PARAMETERS, SWARM, THERMALIZATION, VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION, WKB},
	isbn = {0021-9606},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1993MH74400037},
	author = {Demeio, L. and Shizgal, B.}
}
