Mobility of carbon ions and C+(4P) in helium computed from quantum-mechanical transport cross sections.

On the light of a previous work and its recommendations by Matobaet al.[J. Phys. B41, 145205 (2008)], this paper proposes to look at the mobility of ground and metastable-excited states of C+ions moving into a helium buffer gas. The calculations, based on the three-temperature theory for solving the Boltzmann kinetic equation, are accomplished with quantum-mechanical transport cross sections at the low temperatures 4.3 and 77 K. The obtained mobility results are contrasted with the available theoretical data and experimental measurements, which show acceptable agreements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]