Electron-ion recombination at low pressures

AS THE name implies, the recombination process describes the situation in which a neutral gas is ionized and the electrons and ions which are thus formed recombine to form neutral atoms and molecules again. Its importance in the field of gas discharge derives from the fact that this process constitutes one of the important agencies whereby charges disappear from a discharge. From the point of view of physics in general, it is one of the fundamental processes which all the artillery of classical and modern physics must be capable of explaining.