CALCULATION OF REDUCED IONIZATION COEFFICIENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF OBTAINING CROSS SECTION SETS USING SWARM METHOD ON AN EXAMPLE OF NEON GAS

Abstract

This paper presents the use of swarm method for obtaining sets of cross sections on an example of Neon gas (Ne). Cross sections for e-/Ne interaction available in the LxCat database were presented and discussed. The following three bases were selected: Biagi-v7.1, Morgan and Siglo. We used Bolsig+ code to calculate reduced ionization coefficient (α/N), after which calculated values were compared to measured values in the Dutton base. The swarm method was demonstrated in the α/N example, where the Morgan cross sections set was used as an entry parameter for calculation of coefficient.