Calculation of Total Cross Sections for Positron Scattering by Lithium at Intermediate Energies

The total cross sections for positron scattering by lithium at intermediate energies (10-200eV) are calculated by using the coupled-channel optical method with a complex equivalent-local polarization potential which incorporates ionization continuum and positronium (Ps) formation channels contributions into the coupled channels framework. The effects of the two-body Ps rearrangement and three-body ionization process on the total crosss ection are found to be significant at lower energies and this effect is not negligible up to 30 eV. Compared to the available theoretical data, the predicted total cross sections agree quite well with the calculations of McAlinden et al. [J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 30 (1997)1543] and Campbell et al. [Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. B 143 (199s) 41]     

Theoretical analysis on fully differential cross sections for C~(6+)impact ionization of helium

Fully differential cross sections （FDCS） are calculated within a four-body model for single ionization of helium by C6＋ impact at the incident energy of 100 MeV/a.u. （atomic unit）. The results are compared with experimental data and other theoretical predictions. It is shown that our results are in very good agreement with experiment for three small momentum transfers in the scattering plane; however, some significant discrepancies are still present at the largest momentum transfer in both the scattering plane and the perpendicular plane. In actuality, the problem has not been explained by the theory during the last decade. Accordingly, the contributions of different scattering amplitudes to FDCS are analyzed. It is found that for the largest momentum transfer the cross section arising from a destructive interference of the three amplitudes is much smaller than the experimental data. However, the cross section due to the constructive interference of two scattering amplitudes between projectile-ionized electron interaction and projectile-passive electron interaction almost approaches the experimental data.     

L-Shell X-Ray Production Cross Sections of Ta and Tm by Electron Impact near the Threshold Region

We present experimental measurements of L-shell production cross sections Lα, Lβ and Lγ for tantalum and thulium by electron impact at incident electron energies from about one to three times the threshold energy. From the experimental data, the total production cross section and mean ionization cross section are deduced. The influence of electrons reflected from the substrate is corrected by the electron transport bipartition model. Tile measured cross sections are compared with the theoretical predictions.     

Elastic Scattering of CH4 by Electron Impact

In this work we present a theoretical study on electrons scattering by CH4 in the intermediate energy range. More specifically, we report integral and differential cross sections for electron scattering by CH4 in the （10 - 300） eV range by the Schwinger multichannel method using plane waves as a trial basis set （SMC-PW）. To include exchange effects we have used the Born-Ochkur model. Our aim is to study the numerical stability of the cross sections and our calculated results compared with experimental data and theoretical studies are encouraging.     

Differential, elastic integral and moment transfer cross sections for electron scattering from N2 at intermediate- and high-energies

A complex optical model potential modified by incorporating the concept of bonded atom, with the overlapping effect of electron clouds between two atoms in a molecule taken into consideration, is firstly employed to calculate the differential cross sections, elastic integral cross sections, and moment transfer cross sections for electron scattering from molecular nitrogen over the energy range 300—1000eV by using additivity rule model at Hartree—Fock level. The bonded-atom concept is used in the study of the complex optical model potential composed of static, exchange, correlation polarization and absorption contributions. The calculated quantitative molecular differential cross sections, elastic integral cross sections, and moment transfer cross sections are compared with the experimental and theoretical ones wherever available, and they are found to be in good agreement with each other. It is shown that the additivity rule model together with the complex optical model potential modified by incorporating the concept of bonded atom is completely suitable for the calculations of differential cross section, elastic integral cross section and moment transfer cross section over the intermediate- and high-energy ranges.     

Theoretical Investigation on Excitation,Ionization and Capture in H（1s, 2s） ＋ H（1s, 2s） Collisions

Cross sections of electron-loss in H（1s）＋ H（1s） collisions and total collisional destruction of H（2s） in H（1s） 4- H（2s） collisions are calculatted by four-body classical-trajectory Monte Caylo （CTMC） method and compared with previous theoretical and experimental data over the energy range of 4-100 keV. For the former a good agreement is obtained within different four-body CTMC calculations, and for the incident energy Ep 〉 10 keV, comparison with the experimental data shows a better agreement than the results calculated by the impact parameter approx- imation. For the latter, our theory predicts the correct experimental behaviour, and the discrepancies between our results and experimental ones are less than 30%. Based on the successive comparison with experiments, the cross sections for excitation to H（2p）, single- and double-ionization and H- formation in H（2s）＋H（2s） collisions are calculated in the energy range of 4-100 keV for the first time, and compared with those in H（1s）＋H（1s） and H（1s）＋U（2s） collisions.     

Sequential over-barrier ionization of multi-electron atoms in the tens-to-hundreds keV/u energy range

Our previous work on the classical over-barrier ionization model for helium double ionization is extended to the complex multi-electron system of Ne.The total and q-fold ionization cross sections are calculated at energies ranging from a few tens to several hundred keV/u.The calculation results are in good agreement with the experimental data,and the energy dependence of the cross sections suggests that the multi-ionization of a strong perturbated complex atom is probably the sequential over-barrier ionization process.     

Electron Impact Excitation of Xenon from the Ground State and the Metastable State to the 5p57p Levels

Electron impact excitation cross sections from the ground state and the lowest metastable state 5p56s J=2 to the excited states of the 5p57p configuration of xenon are calculated systematically using the fully relativistic distorted wave method. Special attention is paid to the configuration interaction effects in the wave-function expansion of target states. The results are in good agreement with the recent experimental data by Jung et al. [Phys. Rev. A 80 （2009） 062708] over the measured energy range. These accurate theoretical results can be used in the modeling and diagnosis of plasmas containing xenon.     

Electron Correlation in the Final Continuum of Ionization Hydrogen by 150-eV Electron Impact

Electron correlation in triple differential cross sections for ionization of atomic hydrogen by electron impact is analysed for the case of coplanar asymmetric geometry within the framework of the two-potential formulae. Based on the approximations of projectile and faster-electron plane wave, the transition matrix element is analytically expressed to be a product of two factors: the correlation factor of two electrons in the final channel and the structure-scattering factor. The contribution of both the factors to the angular distribution of the triple differential cross section is calculated. The present results are compared with the experimental data and the other theoretical calculations for the incident energy of 150eV.     

Cross Section of Heavy Ion Reaction （14.5 MeV/u） ^132Xe ＋ Bi

We investigate the cross section of the heavy ion reaction （14.5 MeV/u） ^132Xe ＋ Bi by using a CR-39 plastic track detector. The target-detector assembly is exposed at UNILAC beam facility of GSI, Germany. After etching under appropriate etching conditions, the detector is scanned for multipronged events produced as a result of interactions of projectile ions with target atoms. The elastic events are separated from binary events and used for the determination of the quarter-point angle. The quarter-point angle obtained is used to determine the total reaction cross section. The total experimental reaction cross section is determined by using statistics of inelastic events of two-pronged and higher multiplicity events. The experimental reaction cross sections determined by using elastic and inelastic data observed in the reaction under study are found to be in good agreement with the theoretically calculated value of reaction cross section using a sharp cutoff model.     

Measurement of angular dependence of M X-ray production cross-sections in Re,Bi and U at 5.96 keV

The M X-ray production differential cross sections in Re, Bi and U elements have been measured at the 5.96 keV incident photon energy in an angular range 135°–155°. The measurements were performed using a ⁵⁵Fe source and a Si(Li) detector. The present results contradict the predictions of Cooper and Zare [Atomic Collision Processes, Gordon and Breach, New York (1969)] and experimental results of Kumar et al. [J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. 34, 613 (2001)]. that, after photoionization of inner shells, the vacancy state has equal population of magnetic substates and the subsequent X-ray emission is isotropic, but confirm the predictions of the calculations of Flügge et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 29, 7 (1972)] and experimental results of Sharma and Allawadhi [J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. 32, 2343 (1999)] and Ertugrul [Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 119, 345 (1996)]. Total M X-ray production cross sections from the decay at the 5.96 keV photon energies are found to be in good agreement with the calculated theoretical results using the theoretical values of M shell photoionization cross section.     

Double ionization of helium by electron-impact: complete pictures of the four-body breakup dynamics

The dynamics of He double ionization by 2 keV electron impact is studied experimentally for a momentum transfer of 0.6 a.u. at excess energies of 10 and 40 eV. Complete sets of fivefold differential cross sections are presented for all electron emission angles in coplanar geometry. Contributions beyond the first Born approximation are identified comparing experimental data with first order convergent close-coupling calculations which are in considerably better agreement with the present experiment than with the earlier measurement of Kheifets et al. [J. Phys. B 32, 5047 (1999)].     

Elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by NO

We report elastic integral, momentum transfer and differential cross sections for electron scattering by N₂O for energies up to 50 eV. These results were obtained at the static-exchange approximation with the Schwinger Multichannel Method with Pseudopotentials [M.H.F. Bettega, L.G. Ferreira and M.A.P. Lima, Phys. Rev. A 47, 1111 (1993)]. In general our results show good agreement with experimental data and with other theoretical results but some discrepancies are found. We have also found a shape resonance around 4 eV in agreement with previous calculations using the R-matrix Method of Sarpal et al. [J. Phys. B 29, 857 (1996)]. On the other hand, the existence of a resonance at about 13 eV, clearly seen by the Schwinger Variational Iterative Method [Michelin et al., J. Phys. B 29, 2115 (1996)], can not be confirmed by our calculations. At this energy, our cross sections show a broad bump with no clear resonant behavior given by the eigenphase sum. Received: 13 November 1997 / Revised: 13 March 1998 / Accepted: 9 April 1998     

Re-examining Photodetachment of H~- near a Spherical Surface using Closed-Orbit Theory

Photodeachment of H~-near a reflective spherical surface was studied by Haneef et al.[J.Phys.B:At.Mol.Opt.Phys.44(2011)195004]using a theoretical imaging method.The total cross section displays interesting oscillations.Here we re-examine the total photodetachment cross section of this system by directly applying the standard closed-orbit theory.Our result for the total cross section differs from the result obtained by Haneef et al.The difference between the two results vanishes in the limit of large radius of the reflective sphere.We argue that the theoretical imaging method developed originally for photodetachment near a Hat surface can not be directly applied to the present system.     

Threshold peak structures in the vibrational excitation of HCl by low-energy electron impact

A new model which describes dissociative electron attachment and vibrational excitation for the HCl molecule is proposed. The model is based on ab initio scattering data calculated in the fixed nuclei approximation by Morgan et al. [J. Phys. B 23 (1990) 99]. The cross sections for vibrational excitation exhibit interesting oscillatory structures in the threshold peak region.     

He2+离子与H原子的重粒子碰撞电离过程

利用初态程函近似的连续扭曲波方法研究了He²⁺离子与Ｈ原子的碰撞电离过程. 计 算得到了入射离子能量从30keV/u到2000keV/u的碰撞电离总截面、随电离电子能量和角度变 化的一阶和二阶微分散射截面，及随入射离子能量变化的电离电子平均能量.计算的总电离 截面与其他理论和实验结果进行了比较，在入射离子能量大于100keV／u的能区，计算结果 与实验符合得很好；在较低的能区，各种理论结果之间有较大差别，计算结果比实验约小50 ％.利用计算的二阶微分散射截面讨论了软碰撞、电子俘获到入射离子连续态、两体相遇碰 撞等碰撞电离机理. 关键词： 重粒子碰撞电离 初态程函近似 总截面 一阶和二阶微分散射截面     

Ionization and Charge Transfer of Atomic Hydrogen by Highly Charged Ions

Cross sections for charge transfer and ionization of atomic hydrogen by highly charged ions A^q＋ （q =6 9） are evaluated using a simple and classical method based on the previous works by Bohr and Lindhard [K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Mat. Fys. Medd 28 （1954） No 7], Brandt [Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. 214 （1983） 93] and Ben-Itzhak et al. [J. Phys. B： At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 26 （1993） 1711]. It is proved that the present calculations are feasible to some extent in comparison with available experimental data and quantum calculations.     

Measurement of Cu K-shell and Ag L-shell ionization cross sections by low-energy positron impact

Inner shell ionization cross sections by low-energy positron impact have been measured. Development of an x-ray detector with thin Si(Li) crystals has enabled the first measurements of the absolute cross sections for the positron impacts in the energy range below 30 keV. Threshold behavior of the measured cross sections for the Cu K shell and Ag L shell are compared with the theoretical results of Gryzinski and Kowalski [Phys. Lett. A 183, 196 (1993)]] and Khare and Wadehra [Can. J. Phys. 74, 376 (1996)]]. Good agreement has been found for the Cu K shell, while the experimental values for the Ag L shell were found to be smaller than the corresponding theoretical results.     

Cross Sections of Electron Detachment for Si^- and Ge^- in Collision with Ar

Single electron detachment cross section for 10-40keV Si^- and Ge^- in collisions with Ar are measured and compared with other available experimental results. In our experimental energy region, the trend of cross sections is almost constant. The cross sections of Ge larger than Si can be understood by including electron affinity and size of negative ions.     

A quasi-classical trajectory study of the Cl + H<Subscript>2</Subscript> (D<Subscript>2</Subscript>) reaction on a new BW3 potential energy surface

Molecular reaction dynamics of Cl + H₂ (D₂) has been studied on the latest analytical potential energy surface called BW3 using the Monte Carlo quasi-classical trajectory method. Excitation functions, differential cross sections and angular distributions of HCl and DCl products have been calculated. The excitation functions of the Cl (²P_3/2) + n-H₂ and Cl(²P_3/2) + n-D₂ reactions are also studied. The results are compared with those of quasi-classical trajectory [M. Alagia et al.: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2 (2000); F. J. Aoiz et al.: J. Phys. Chem. 100 (1996)], quantum mechanical (QM) calculations [F. J. Aoiz et al.:J. Chem. Phys. 115 (2001)] and experimental data [S. H. Lee et al.: J. Chem. Phys. 110 (1999); F. Dong et al.: J. Chem. Phys. 115 (2001)]. Discussions are given to some new results.