Electron impact ionization and transport in nitrogen–argon mixtures

The electron drift velocities and ionization coefficients in the nitrogen–argon mixtures have been measured and calculated over a wide range of E / N and mixture concentrations. It was found that standard cross section sets for low and moderate energies fit the transport data very well. Derived quantities such as the mean energy for electrons and the ratio between the transverse diffusion coefficients and the electron mobility have also been calculated.