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PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/ab85b6
Keywords
swarm analysis; inverse problem; Boltzmann equation; machine learning
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- Australian Research Council [DP180101655]
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We present a neural network for the solution of the inverse swarm problem of deriving cross sections from swarm transport data. To account for the uncertainty inherent to this somewhat ill-posed inverse problem, we train the neural network using cross sections from the LXCat project, paired with associated transport coefficients found by the numerical solution of Boltzmann's equation. The use of experimentally measured and theoretically calculated cross sections for training encourages the network to avoid unphysical solutions, such as those containing spurious energy-dependent oscillations. We successfully apply this machine learning approach to simulated swarm data for electron transport in helium, separately determining its elastic momentum transfer and ionisation cross sections to within an accuracy of 4% over the range of energies considered. Our attempt to extend our method to argon was less successful, although the reason for that observation is well-understood. Finally, we explore the feasibility of simultaneously determining cross sections of helium using this approach. We have some success here, determining elastic, total n = 2 excitation and ionisation cross sections to 10%, 20% and 25% accuracy, respectively. We are unsuccessful in properly unfolding the separate n = 2 singlet and triplet excitation cross sections of helium, but this is as expected given their similar threshold energies.
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