A scanning drift tube apparatus for spatiotemporal mapping of electron swarms

Korolov, Ihor and Vass, Máté and Bastykova, NKh and Donkó, Zoltán (2016) A scanning drift tube apparatus for spatiotemporal mapping of electron swarms. REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, 87 (6). ISSN 0034-6748

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Abstract

A “scanning” drift tube apparatus, capable of mapping of the spatio-temporal evolution of electron swarms, developing between two plane electrodes under the effect of a homogeneous electric field, is presented. The electron swarms are initiated by photoelectron pulses and the temporal distributions of the electron flux are recorded while the electrode gap length (at a fixed electric field strength) is varied. Operation of the system is tested and verified with argon gas, the measured data are used for the evaluation of the electron bulk drift velocity. The experimental results for the space-time maps of the electron swarms – presented here for the first time – also allow clear observation of deviations from hydrodynamic transport. The swarm maps are also reproduced by particle simulations.

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