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Optical spectra of binary rare-gas mixtures

G. N. Gerasimov

All-Russian Research Center "S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute"

Abstract: The results of experimental and theoretical investigations of the properties of heteronuclear rare-gas dimers are presented. Spectra in the vacuum ultraviolet region received primary emphasis. It is shown that the bulk of the excitation energy stored by the low-temperature plasma of binary mixtures is released by the heteronuclear dimers in a narrow spectral band near atomic resonance lines.

PACS: 33.20.Ni, 34.20.-b, 34.50.Gb

Received: May 7, 2003
Revised: October 29, 2003

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0174.200402d.0155

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2004, 47:2, 149–168

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