Monochromatization effect kinetic model for Penning gas mixtures emission mechanisms

The monochromatization effect (M-effect), which consists in the reduction of an electronegative-electropositive gas mixtures discharge emission spectrum to only a few or a single line, was largely explained in our previous published papers together with their generation mechanisms, namely the polar ion-ion recombination and the energy resonance condition. This paper presents a kinetic model for the M-effect based on the radiative and collisional processes which appear between 1s 2, 1s3, 1s4 and 1s5 Paschen levels, in Penning gas mixtures, where this effect was observed to be the most powerful.