“…We have proved experimentally [25,26] that the assumption of TDE under our experimental conditions is correct. To obtain a eff from the measured electron density decay curves, we used direct fits to the data and, in addition, the more advanced 'integral analysis' technique [31]. We deliberately excluded the first 50-150 ms of the afterglow decay from the data analysis because some new ions were probably still being formed (for details see [4,20,26,31]).…”