Enhancement of electron–ion recombination rates at low energy range in the heavy ion storage ring CSRm

Recombination of Ar¹⁴⁺, Ar¹⁵⁺, Ca¹⁶⁺, and Ni¹⁹⁺ ions with electrons has been investigated at low energy range based on the merged-beam method at the main cooler storage ring CSRm in the Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou,China. For each ion, the absolute recombination rate coefficients have been measured with electron–ion collision energies from 0 meV to 1000 meV which include the radiative recombination(RR) and also dielectronic recombination(DR)processes. In order to interpret the measured results, RR cross sections were obtained from a modified version of the semiclassical Bethe and Salpeter formula for hydrogenic ions. DR cross sections were calculated by a relativistic configuration interaction method using the flexible atomic code(FAC) and AUTOSTRUCTURE code in this energy range. The calculated RR + DR rate coefficients show a good agreement with the measured value at the collision energy above 100 meV.However, large discrepancies have been found at low energy range especially below 10 meV, and the experimental results show a strong enhancement relative to the theoretical RR rate coefficients. For the electron–ion collision energy below 1 meV, it was found that the experimentally observed recombination rates are higher than the theoretically predicted and fitted rates by a factor of 1.5 to 3.9. The strong dependence of RR rate coefficient enhancement on the charge state of the ions has been found with the scaling rule of q^3.0, reproducing the low-energy recombination enhancement effects found in other previous experiments.     

电子束离子阱光谱标定和Ar13+离子M1跃迁波长精密测量

高电荷态离子精细结构跃迁波长的精密测量不仅可以检验量子电动力学(quantum electrodynamics,QED)效应、电子关联效应等基本物理模型,还能够为天体物理、聚变等离子体物理甚至高电荷态离子光钟等研究提供关键原子物理数据.本工作基于复旦大学现代物理研究所的高温超导电子束离子阱(SH-HtscEBIT)装置,搭建了一套新的光谱校刻系统,并结合内校刻与外校刻的方法对其光谱波长测量的不确定度进行了评估,新的光谱校刻系统在可见光波段引起的波长不确定度最低达到0.002 nm.在此基础上,使用SH-HtscEBIT装置结合新的校刻系统开展了Ar¹³⁺离子1s²2s²2p²P_1/2-²P_3/2磁偶极跃迁(M1)波长的精密测量,实验测得该跃迁波长为(441.2567±0.0026)nm,是目前SH-HtscEBIT上测量精度最高的实验结果,为下一步开展高电荷态离子超精细分裂和同位素位移等精密测量实验奠定了基础.