P10: Effect of N2 (Calculated)

The tables below allow one to estimate the effect of residual or leaked N2 in the STAR TPC gas, which is nominally P10 (90% Ar, 10% methane by volume) at ~2 mbar above the ambient atmospheric pressure with an electric field of ~148 V/cm and a temperature of ~75F=23.9C. (The short answer is that 1000 ppm of N2 reduces the drift velocity by ~1%; diffusion is rather insensitive to it.)

The values were calculated by Roy Bossingham using Magboltz 2, V3.1 (Biagi, 2000) for T=23.9C, P=760 Torr and B, E parallel and near typical values in STAR. Magboltz 2 uses Monte Carlo methods, with the statistics determined by the collisions parameter. The values below were calculated with statistics corresponding to collisions=120, or higher, giving a precision of at least 0.04% in drift velocity and 1.6% in diffusion.

 

Drift velocity vs E for P10 with 0, 1000 and 10,000 ppm
N2 impurity; for P=760 Torr and E is parallel to B.

 

E
(V/cm) 		E/P
(V/cm-Torr) 		V
(cm/us)
    N2 (ppm)
    0 100 1000 10,000
100 0.1316 5.239   5.173 4.591
118 0.1553 5.434 5.425 5.373 4.825
128 0.1684 5.477 5.470 5.420 4.917
138 0.1816 5.487 5.490 5.424 4.968
148 0.1947 5.472 5.470 5.420 4.986
158 0.2079 5.453 5.446 5.398 4.998
168 0.2211 5.393 5.401 5.367 4.997
178 0.2342 5.348 5.343 5.300 4.957
188 0.2474 5.273 5.272 5.240 4.913
200 0.2632 5.189   5.152 4.870

Calculated drift velocity for 0, 100, 1000 and 10,000 ppm N2 in P10 as
a function of E/P for parallel E and B at P=760 Torr and T=23.9C .

 

E
(V/cm) 		E/P
(V/cm-Torr) 		Sigma_L
(um/sqrt(cm)) 		Sigma_T(B=5 kG)
(um/sqrt(cm))
    N2 (ppm) N2 (ppm)
    0 100 1000 10,000 0 100 1000 10,000
100 0.1316 427   428 427 191   191 206
118 0.1553 395 391 395 387 209 209 207 224
128 0.1684 379 380 370 378 218 221 220 231
138 0.1816 363 366 367 359 227 222 228 237
148 0.1947 356 354 353 358 240 240 239 249
158 0.2079 341 348 356 347 250 246 245 261
168 0.2211 330 349 354 337 255 255 257 261
178 0.2342 330 343 338 337 260 262 264 271
188 0.2474 339 323 331 329 270 269 267 281
200 0.2632 323   326 323 289   288 290

Calculated diffusion for 0, 100, 1000 and 10,000 ppm N2 in P10 as a
function of E/P for parallel E and B at P=760 Torr and T=23.9C .

 

N2
(ppm) 		V
(cm/us) 		Sigma_L
(um/sqrt(cm)) 		Sigma_T(B)
(um/sqrt(cm))
      B=5.0 kG B=2.5 kG B=0.0 kG
0 5.472 356 240 346 575
100 5.470 354 240 340 562
1000 5.420 353 239 343 566
10,000 4.986 358 249 363 551

Calculated drift velocity and diffusion as a function of N2
in P10 for parallel E and B at P=760 Torr and T=23.9C .

 

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