The IST-LISBON database on LXCat

LXCat is a web-based, community-wide project on the curation of data needed in the modelling of low-temperature plasmas. LXCat is organized in databases, contributed by members of the community around the world and indicated by the contributor's chosen title. This paper presents the status of the data available on the IST-LISBON database with LXCat. IST-LISBON contains up-to-date electron-neutral collisional data (together with the measured swarm parameters used to validate these data) resulting from the research effort of the Group of Gas Discharges and Gaseous Electronics with Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Presently, the IST-LISBON database includes complete and consistent sets of electron scattering cross sections for argon, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and methane.

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