Excitation kinetics of electronic states of hydrogen molecules in nonequilibrium discharges. Electronic ground state

This review offers an analysis of the vibrational kinetics of hydrogen molecules in the singlet ground state $X^1\Sigma^+_g$ for various gas discharges. The measured quasi-stationary vibrational-level distribution functions of a hydrogen molecule in the electronic ground state at the corresponding vibrational temperatures of the first level and those calculated in the framework of a semiempirical level collisional–radiative model of low-temperature plasma in hydrogen, developed in this study, are compared. A database of the measured and calculated characteristics of kinetic processes involving vibrational-excited hydrogen molecules, as well as macro- and microparameters of hydrogen low-temperature plasma, is created.