{"title":"Electron-impact excitation of the ns[3/2]oJ=2,1 and ns'[ 1/2]oJ=0,1 levels of Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe","authors":"M. Khakoo, C. Beckmann, S. Trajmar, G. Csanak","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/27/14/045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/27/14/045","url":null,"abstract":"Relative differential cross sections for electron-impact excitation of the four lowest electronic levels ns[3/2]oJ=2 and 1 ns'[1/2]oJ=0 and 1 were measured for Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe at 30 eV impact energy and for Kr and Xe at 20 eV impact energy for a range of scattering angles from 0 degrees to 134 degrees . The aim of the present work was: to improve the quality of existing data, to extend the measurements to small scattering angles, to determine whether statistical weight (branching) ratios represent the ns[3/2]o2 to ns'[1/2]o DCS ratios (r) and to compare the experimental results with the predictions of non-relativistic and relativistic first-order scattering theories. We found that the experimental ratios r closely correspond to statistical weight ratios for Ne and Ar at all scattering angles, for Kr at most angles, but seriously deviate from statistical weight ratios for Xe at all angles. First-order scattering theories yield good and reasonable predictions for Ne, Ar and Kr, respectively. For Xe theories also predict significant deviations from statistical weight ratios but there is no agreement between experiment and theory. Surprisingly, the DCS ratios (r') obtained for the ns[3/2]o1, and ns'[1/2]o1, levels by experiment and various first-order theories deviate significantly for all rare-gas species. It is also surprising that the fully relativistic first-order theory does not show improved agreement between experiment and theory in the case of Xe.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"126 2 1","pages":"3159-3174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77879238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calculations of 5dN-16s systems using orthogonal operators: do orthogonal operators survive configuration interaction?","authors":"P. Uylings, A. Raassen, J. Wyart","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/26/24/004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/26/24/004","url":null,"abstract":"The merits and pitfalls of using orthogonal operators in systems with strong configuration interaction are illustrated by a study of a number of (5d+6s)N configurations (N=8, 9) ranging from Ir to Pb. Both the perturbational and the full diagonalization approach are applied. Criteria are given to indicate the regions where either operators based on perturbation theory or explicit configuration interactions are dominant. In both regions, orthogonal operators describe the (ground and) excited states well, provided they are extended by interconfiguration operators in the case of lower ionization, where full diagonalization of the three (5d+6s)N configurations is required. Ab initio calculations using second order perturbation theory show satisfactory agreement with the results from fits to experimental energy levels, except again for the lowest ionizations, where perturbation theory breaks down. It turns out to be a good approximation to exclude interactions treated by complete diagonalization from the perturbation expressions; both approaches can then be combined to describe excited state interactions.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"8 1","pages":"4683-4693"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77671373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low energy electron impact spectra of the van der Waals clusters Xe2 and Xen (n approximately 3,4)","authors":"M. Allan","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/26/3/007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/26/3/007","url":null,"abstract":"The energy loss spectrum of electrons scattered at 90' has been measured for Xe emanating from a 30 mu m diameter nozzle, in the 8.0-8.9 eV energy loss range, at 2 eV residual energy, and at stagnation pressures between 0.2 and 1.3 bar. Weak satellite bands of the 3P2 and 3P1 atomic lines have been observed at a stagnation pressure of 0.6 bar and assigned to electronic transitions of the van der Waals dimer Xe2. An additional shoulder emerging at even higher stagnation pressures has been attributed to larger clusters. The energy dependence of the excitation of the Xe 3P2 and 3P1 atomic lines exhibits a number of narrow doubly excited Feshbach resonances. These features are much less pronounced or absent in the excitation functions of the Xe2 and Xen bands, indicating energy broadening and lifetime shortening of the doubly excited resonances in the clusters.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"209 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73939127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Total cross sections for K-K electron transfer in fast ion-atom collisions: the impulse and strong potential Born approximations","authors":"H. Marxer, J. Briggs","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/25/18/010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/25/18/010","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time the strong potential Born (SPB) and the impulse (IA) approximation for K-K electron capture are evaluated exactly using non-hydrogenic (Herman-Skillman) wavefunctions. It is shown that the long-range tail of the target nucleus potential leads to a loss of normalization of off-shell electronic wavefunctions and results in cross sections in disagreement with experiment. A wavepacket renormalization procedure restores agreement with experiment and for proton impact leads to cross sections close to those provided by the IA. However, for projectiles of higher charge, off-shell effects persist and the renormalized SPB cross sections are more accurate than those of the IA.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"1 1","pages":"3823-3848"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75022569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of thermal and collisional effects on IRMPA and IRMPD of SF6 via a combined model involving rotationally resolved coherent-incoherent interface and quasicontinuum","authors":"S. Mitra, S. Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/25/11/009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/25/11/009","url":null,"abstract":"A computationally simple model incorporating a rotationally resolved interfacing scheme between the regions of coherent and incoherent excitation (3 nu 3) and rotational structure in the quasicontinuum (QC) describes the total excitation and dissociation process of SF6 in an argon buffer. The effective cross section from a particular rotational sublevel of 3 nu 3 mode is obtained from the sum of Lorentzian functions of all allowed transitions to 4 nu 3 from that particular sublevel. The many resonances in the allowed transitions cause a large decrease in the bottleneck to the transition to the QC and a shift of the spectrum to the blue compared with that in our earlier model where the interface was rotationally unresolved. Using these cross sections, an effective two-level scheme demonstrates the formation of holes in the rotational distribution of molecules in the discrete levels and their subsequent disappearance at various buffer gas pressures and for different incident laser frequencies.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"29 1","pages":"2535-2550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89399961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Ullrich, R. Moshammer, R. Dörner, O. Jagutzki, V. Mergel, H. Schmidt-Böcking, L. Spielberger
{"title":"Recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy","authors":"J. Ullrich, R. Moshammer, R. Dörner, O. Jagutzki, V. Mergel, H. Schmidt-Böcking, L. Spielberger","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/30/13/006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/30/13/006","url":null,"abstract":"High-resolution recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy (RIMS) is a novel technique to determine the charge state and the complete final momentum vector of a recoiling target ion emerging from an ionizing collision of an atom with any kind of radiation. It offers a unique combination of superior momentum resolution in all three spatial directions of with a large detection solid angle of . Recently, low-energy electron analysers based on rigorously new concepts and reaching similar specifications were successfully integrated into RIM spectrometers yielding so-called `reaction microscopes'. Exploiting these techniques, a large variety of atomic reactions for ion, electron, photon and antiproton impact have been explored in unprecedented detail and completeness. Among them kinematically complete experiments on electron capture, single and double ionization in ion - atom collisions at projectile energies between 5 keV and 1.4 GeV have been carried out. Double photoionization of He has been investigated at energies close to the threshold up to . At the contributions to double ionization after photoabsorption and Compton scattering were separated kinematically for the first time. These and many other results will be reviewed in this paper. In addition, the experimental technique is described in some detail and emphasis is given to envisaging the rich future potential of the method in various fields of atomic collision physics with atoms, molecules and clusters.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"77 2-3 1","pages":"2917-2974"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77891484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philippe Roncin, M. N. Gaboriaud, L. Guillemot, H. Laurent, S. Ohtani, M. Barat
{"title":"Electron capture by multiply charged ions on helium target a population mechanism for minor channels","authors":"Philippe Roncin, M. N. Gaboriaud, L. Guillemot, H. Laurent, S. Ohtani, M. Barat","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/23/7/017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/23/7/017","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports on differential cross sections at keV energies for electron capture by various ions of charge q<9 colliding with helium atoms. Whereas the cross section for single capture into the principle quantum number n, the dominant process, is peaked near zero degrees, the cross section for capture into n+1, a less exothermic process, is peaked at large scattering angle. The process involves a population scheme taking place at small internuclear distance. This mechanism was predicted by the 'electron promotion model'.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"10 1","pages":"1215-1223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82278311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An alternative proof of some relations between hydrogenic matrix elements","authors":"R. A. Swainson, G. Drake","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/23/7/005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/23/7/005","url":null,"abstract":"A relationship between certain integrals of the product of two Laguerre polynomials is obtained. It is shown how this relationship, together with two known Hankel transforms, allows for an alternative derivation of some relations between matrix elements of rk for hydrogenic ions. A further relation, involving matrix elements of logarithmic functions, is obtained in a similar manner.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"26 1","pages":"1079-1084"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83782455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rate constants for deactivation of N2* (A3Σu+, nu =0, 1) by H and D atoms","authors":"M. Kubo, M. Kogoma, T. Moriwaki, S. Okazaki","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/22/19/015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/22/19/015","url":null,"abstract":"The quenching reactions of metastable nitrogen molecules N2*(A3 Sigma u+, nu =0, 1) with atomic hydrogen and atomic deuterium have been studied in a room-temperature discharge flow system by monitoring the time decay of the 0, 6 and 1, 10 emissions of the Vegard-Kaplan (N2*(A3 Sigma u+) to N2(X1 Sigma g+)) band. Rate constants, kQ, of (1.3+or-0.4)*10-10 and (0.90+or-0.12)*10-10 cm3 s-1 were measured for Q=H, nu =0, 1 and (1.0+or-0.3)*10-10 and (0.68+or-0.04)*10-10 cm3 s-1 for Q=D, nu =0, 1, with an accuracy of 90%. NO gas was used as a tracer for N2*(A3). KQ values of (1.0+or-0.1)*10-10 cm3 s-1 for Q=H and (0.94+or-0.14)*10-10 cm3 s-1 for Q=D were obtained for the mixture of N2*(A3, nu =0) and N2*(A3, nu =1).","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"2 1","pages":"3011-3016"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72974482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sommerfeld screening parameter σ2 and theoretically calculated energies of atomic inner shells","authors":"U. D. Misra, M. Sah, B. G. Gokhale","doi":"10.1088/0953-4075/22/10/007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/22/10/007","url":null,"abstract":"Using the recent theoretical atomic energy values of Huang et al. (1976), the values of the Sommerfeld screening parameter sigma 2 have been calculated for those spin doublet levels where calculations could not formerly be performed owing to the lack of experimental energy values. The method used was described earlier by Burr and Carson (1974) and involves no errors arising from the truncation of the series expansion of the Sommerfeld-Dirac relativistic energy expression. It is found that: (i) sigma 2 is a function of Z for all the spin doublets studied; (ii) the sigma 2 values calculated smoothly fit in the gaps in the sigma 2 against Z curves drawn by Burr and Carson; (iii) the sigma 2 values which show excessive scattering in the sigma 2 against Z curves drawn by Burr and Carson have been recalculated and are found to fit much better in the sigma 2 against Z curves; (iv) there exists a dip in the sigma 2 values in the regions of inner-shell filling (3d,4d, 4f,5d etc.) for all the doublets studied; (v) the sigma 2 values become negative for Z=22-25 (3d filling region) for the M2M3 spin doublet; and (vi) comparison of the sigma 2 against Z curves obtained by using the experimental energy values on the one hand, and the Huang et al. theoretical energy values on the other hand shows that the dips are quite pronounced in the latter case.","PeriodicalId":16799,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B","volume":"39 1","pages":"1505-1513"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83265339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}