Eur. Phys. J. B 50, 295-298 (2006)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2006-00111-4

Dissociative attachment of an electron to a molecule: kinetic theory

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (CNR-INFM), Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

Corresponding authors: ^a alberto.rossani@polito.it - ^b antonio.scarfone@polito.it

Received: 18 October 2005
Revised: 23 November 2005
Published online: 12 April 2006

Abstract

Test particles interact with a medium by means of a bimolecular reversible chemical reaction. Two species are assumed to be much more numerous so that they are distributed according to fixed distributions: Maxwellians and Dirac's deltas. Equilibrium and its stability are investigated in the first case. For the second case, a system is constructed, in view of an approximate solution.