Abstract
A modified method for the solution of the Holstein-Biberman transport equation is proposed for cylindrical geometry, arbitrary absorption coefficient accounting for plasma inhomogeneity and a Lorentz spectral lineshape. The method is applied to the plasma generated by a free-burning arc in argon at atmospheric pressure in order to study the effect of trapping of resonance radiation on the population of the resonance state Ar(1s4). The results obtained are compared with those of a self-consistent nonequilibrium model of the arc including excited atomic levels. They show an enhanced (compared to the results of the nonequilibrium model) population of the resonance state outside of the arc core as an effect of the trapping of resonance radiation and almost negligible collisional de-excitation. In the arc core, the effect is negligible so that the calculated population of the Ar(1s4) state confirms the results obtained with the nonequilibrium model.
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