Eur. Phys. J. D (2014) 68: 125
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2014-50085-7

Regular Article

Electron swarm transport in THF and water mixtures^*

¹ ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, James Cook University, 4810 Townsville, Australia
² ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, SA 5001 Adelaide, Australia
³ Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, 5063 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
⁴ Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 28006 Madrid, Spain
⁵ Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62251 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
⁶ Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia

^a e-mail: ronald.white@jcu.edu.au

Received: 30 January 2014
Received in final form: 24 February 2014
Published online: 20 May 2014

Abstract

The transport coefficients of electrons in mixtures of gaseous water and tetrahydrofuran (THF) are calculated using a multi-term solution of the Boltzmann equation. Electron transport coefficients at room temperature are presented over a range of reduced electric fields from 0.1–1000 Td, with significant differences between the behaviour in pure water and pure THF being found. The influence of the water to THF mixture ratio on the calculated transport coefficients is also presented.