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FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS

The Sena effect

B. M. Smirnov

Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The Sena effect relates to the transport of atomic ions in a parent gas, when this transport results from the resonant charge exchange process involving ions and atoms. The physics of this process and its role in a gas discharge plasma are analyzed briefly.

PACS: 34.70.+e, 52.20.-j, 52.25.Fi

Received: December 26, 2006

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0178.200803e.0309

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2008, 51:3, 291–293

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