Transport properties of in SF6–Ne, SF6–N2 and SF6–O2 mixtures

Abstract

The mobility of has been calculated for the gas mixtures SF6–Ne, SF6–N2 and SF6–O2 using an optimized Monte Carlo code for the ion transport simulation in a drift tube. The elastic momentum transfer collision cross sections needed for the calculation were determined from a semi-classical JWKB approximation, while the inelastic ones (detachment, dissociative charge transfer and conversion to and F−) were taken from the literature for the case of the collision system. The resulting sets of collision cross sections were validated by comparing the calculated mobilities with those measured in the above mixtures with a time-resolved pulsed Townsend technique. The longitudinal and transverse density-normalized diffusion coefficients were calculated for these mixtures for the case where the share of SF6 in the mixture was 50%. Finally, the validity of Blanc's law was discussed at low and high electric fields, whereby we show that it fails at high fields, where inelastic processes are dominant.