Novosibirsk State Technical University
Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
UDC 53
UDC 520
UDC 521
UDC 523
UDC 524
UDC 52-1
UDC 52-6
CSCSTI 41.00
CSCSTI 29.35
CSCSTI 29.31
CSCSTI 29.33
CSCSTI 29.27
CSCSTI 29.05
Russian Classification of Professions by Education 03.06.01
Russian Classification of Professions by Education 03.05.01
Russian Classification of Professions by Education 03.04.03
Russian Library and Bibliographic Classification 2
Russian Library and Bibliographic Classification 223
Russian Trade and Bibliographic Classification 614
Russian Trade and Bibliographic Classification 6135
BISAK SCI004000 Astronomy
BISAK SCI005000 Physics / Astrophysics
We present an experimental setup for measurement of the collisional rates relevant for the population of the triplet level of metastable helium. To estimate and verify the theoretical values, the absorption in helium plasma in the 1083 nm line will be measured. We are going to use plasma consisting of helium ions generated by $\theta$-pinch, filling in a 6 m$^3$ volume of a vacuum chamber at concentrations of $10^{12}$–$10^{13}$ cm$^{-3}$. Based on the expected parameters, the optical depth $\tau = 1$ is going to be achieved with a path length $L = 1$ km. To increase the effective path length in the plasma, an optical scheme based on a concave resonator is proposed.
atomic data; atomic processes; plasmas
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