“…It has been well-established, by measurements in argon (Engstrom and Huxford 1940, Molnar 1951, Bito and Bolla 1973 and in nitrogen (Krisch 1968, Haydon and Williams 1972, 1973a, that the presence of secondary electron emission following metastable particle impact on the cathode in an ionization growth experiment may be identified by temporal measurements of ionization growth. When the source of primary electrons is suddenly applied or removed, a rapid change in the anode current corresponding to the fast electron and ion processes is followed by a much slower response determined essentially by the diffusion rate of metastable particles.…”