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Mobility of electrons in supercritical krypton: role of density fluctuations
Masaru Nishikawa1, Richard A Holroyd, Jack M Preses
1Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, 1030 Shimo-Ogino, Astugi 243-0292, Japan.
Abstract:
Excess electrons were generated in supercritical krypton by means of pulsed x-ray irradiation, and the electron transport phenomena were studied. Electron signals immediately after a 30 ps pulse showed a distinctive feature characteristic of the presence of the Ramsauer-Townsend minimum in the momentum transfer cross section. The dependence of the drift velocity v(D) on field strength was found to be concave upward in the low field region and then to go through a maximum with increasing field strength, which is also typical of the presence of a minimum in the scattering cross section at an intermediate field strength. A minimum in the electron mobility was observed at about one-half the critical density. The acoustical phonon scattering model, which successfully explained the mobility change in this density region in supercritical xenon, was again found to account for the mobility in supercritical krypton.
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