“…The most relevant kinetic processes have been identified, but there is a significant spread in the obtained rates of different authors. Main contributions have been published by Frommhold [3,4], Harrison and Geballe [5], Prasad [6], Moruzzi et al [7], Verhaart and van der Laan [8,9], Wen and Wetzer [10,11], Friedrich [12], Kossy et al [13] and Aleksandrow [14] between 1960 and 1995. A more recent theoretical paper has been published by Pancheshnyi in 2013 [15], in which the author calculates a pressure dependency in the density-reduced critical electric field strength (E/N crit with electric field E and particle density N ) of synthetic air.…”