Single and double electron capture processes in slow Ne q+-He (q=10, 6) collisions

The cross sections for single and double electron capture to the states Ne⁹⁺ n) with n=3–6 and Ne⁸⁺(3l,n′l′), Ne⁸⁺(4l,n′l′) with n′⩾4 and also the cross sections for single electron capture to the states Ne⁵⁺(3) in collisions of Ne¹⁰⁺ and Ne⁶⁺ with He atoms are calculated for collision energies in the interval from 10 to 150 keV. The calculation is carried out in the multichannel Landau-Zener, Nikintin, and Landau-Zener-Chaplik models with allowance for the radial coupling of the channels at crossing points of the energies of the quasidiabatic twoelectron states of the quasimolecule. The energies of the two-electron states are calculated in the effective potential method to first order in perturbation theory in the residual electron-electron interaction. The energies of the adiabatic states in the neighborhoods of the crossings of quasidiabatic terms are determined by the configuration interaction method. It is found that in Ne¹⁰⁺-He collisions the electron is captured mainly to the n=5 state of the Ne⁹⁺ ion. The cross section for double electron capture to the 3lnl′ state (n⩾4) of the Ne⁸⁺ ion is an order of magnitude smaller than the cross section for single electron capture. The contribution to the total cross section for double electron charge transfer from the 4l4l′ 4l5l′, and 4l6l′ states is approximately 25%. The dependence of the cross sections for double electron charge transfer on the values of l and l′ is investigated. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 15–28 (January 1999)     

Angular distributions of scattered excited muonic hydrogen atoms

Coulomb deexcitation differential cross sections of excited muonic hydrogen in collisions with the hydrogen atom are studied for the first time. In the fully quantum-mechanical close-coupling approach, both the differential cross sections for the nl → n′l′ transitions and l-averaged differential cross sections have been calculated for the initial exotic atom states with n = 2–6 at kinetic energies of E _cm = 0.01–15 eV and for scattering angles of ϑ_cm = 0°–180°. The vacuum polarization shifts of the ns states are taken into account. The differential cross sections of the elastic and Stark scattering obtained in the same approach are also presented. The main features of the calculated differential cross sections are discussed, and a strong anisotropy of Coulomb deexcitation cross sections is predicted. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Protonium formation in collisions of antiprotons with hydrogen atoms

The formation of an antiprotonic hydrogen atom $\{ p\bar p\} $ (protonium) in the ground state and in excited states (nlm) in collisions of 1-to 250-keV antiprotons with hydrogen atoms is considered theoretically. Partial cross sections (both differential and integrated ones) for this reaction are calculated for various values of n, l, and m up to n～100; cross sections summed over l and m are also obtained. Statistical (polarization) tensors of the orbital angular momentum of protonium atoms are evaluated. Corrections due to strong proton-antiproton interaction in the protonium ground (1s) state are analyzed.     

H<Superscript>+</Superscript> and He<Superscript>2+</Superscript> impact charge transfer cross sections of magnesium

H⁺ impact single and He²⁺ impact single and double electron capture cross sections of magnesium atoms have been calculated in the modified binary encounter approximation (BEA). The accurate expressions of ion impact s_DE\sigma _{\Delta {E}} (cross section for energy transfer DE\Delta E) and Hartree-Fock momentum distributions of the target electrons have been used throughout the calculations. On the basis of the present work it is concluded that inner shell captures by H⁺ and He²⁺ ions incident on magnesium atoms contribute partly to single electron capture and partly to transfer ionization cross sections. The calculated He²⁺ impact double electron capture cross sections of magnesium are in reasonably good agreement with the experimental observations. This indicates the success of the present theoretical approach in study of charge transfer cross sections of atoms as indirect mechanisms do not interfere with double electron capture processes in this case.     

Coupled-static calculations of the partial and total cross sections of positron-lithium inelastic scattering

The inelastic scattering of positrons by lithium atoms has been investigated in details using a combination of the frozen-core and coupled-static approximations. The ground state of the target has been described by Walters' wave functions. The partial cross sections corresponding to 8 values of the total angular momentuml (0l7) are determined for 21 values of the incident energy lying between 0·1 and 1000 eV. Our results illustrate the stability of the iterative numerical technique employed. They demonstrate the role played by each partial wave in the total cross sections and emphasize the argument that the effect of positronium formation on the total collisional cross sections diminishes when the incident energy is larger than 30 eV.     

Transfer of a weakly bound electron in collisions of Rydberg atoms with neutral particles. II. Ion-pair formation and resonant quenching of the Rb(nl) and Ne(nl) States by Ca, Sr, and Ba atoms

Electron-transfer processes are studied in thermal collisions of Rydberg atoms with alkaline-earth Ca(4s ²), Sr(5s ²), and Ba(6s ²) atoms capable of forming negative ions with a weakly bound outermost p-electron. We consider the ion-pair formation and resonant quenching of highly excited atomic states caused by transitions between Rydberg covalent and ionic terms of a quasi-molecule produced in collisions of particles. The contributions of these reaction channels to the total depopulation cross section of Rydberg states of Rb(nl) and Ne(nl) atoms as functions of the principal quantum number n are compared for selectively excited nl-levels with l ? n and for states with large orbital quantum numbers l = n ? 1, n ? 2. It is shown that the contribution from resonant quenching dominates at small values of n, and the ion-pair formation process begins to dominate with increasing n. The values and positions of the maxima of cross sections for both processes strongly depend on the electron affinity of an alkaline-earth atom and on the orbital angular momentum l of a highly excited atom. It is shown that in the case of Rydberg atoms in states with large l ～ n ? 1, the rate constants of ion-pair formation and collisional quenching are considerably lower than those for nl-levels with l ? n.     

Positron scattering from hydrocarbons

The total cross sections for positron impact on hydrocarbons have been calculated using the additivity rule in which the total cross section for a molecule is the sum of the total cross section for the constituent atoms. The energy range considered is from a few eV to several thousand eV. The total cross sections for positron impact on an atom are calculated by employing a complex spherical potential which comprises of a static, polarization and an absorption potential. We have good agreement with the experimental results for hydrocarbons for positron energy ⩾100 eV. Our results also agree with the available calculations for CH₄ and C₂H₂ which employed full molecular wavefunctions beyond 100 eV. Our absorption cross sections also agree with molecular wave-function calculations for C₂H₂ and CH₄ beyond 100 eV. We have shown the Bethe plots fore ⁺−C ande ⁺−H scattering systems and Bethe parameters have been extracted. We have fitted the cross section for positron impact on hydrocarbons in the formσ _t(C _n H _m )=naE ⁻ b+mcE ⁻ d in the energy range 300–5000 eV wherea=195.0543,b=0.7986,c=371.1757 andd=1.1379 withE in eV andσ _t in 10⁻¹⁶ cm².     

电子碰撞Ga,As, Pt,W和Au原子Lα X射线产生截面的理论计算

利用修改后的MBELL模型,研究了L壳层的相对论效应和离子效应对快电子碰撞电离Lα X射线产生截面的影响.通过在BELL模型中引入相对论效应和离子效应,基于相对论性的L壳层的电子碰撞电离截面的理论,计算了Ga,As,Pt,W和Au的L壳层电子碰撞电离截面,并将其转化成Lα X射线产生截面,计算结果表明考虑到相对论效应和离子效应后,修改后的MBELL的Lα X射线产生截面结果明显优于BELL的计算结果,并和最近的文献实验数值 关键词： 快电子 Lα射线')" href="#">Lα射线 电离截面 相对论效应     

Coulomb deexcitation of muonic hydrogen within the quantum close-coupling method

The Coulomb deexcitation of muonic hydrogen in collisions with the hydrogen atom has been studied in the framework of the fully quantum-mechanical close-coupling method for the first time. The calculations of the l-averaged cross sections of the Coulomb deexcitation are performed for (μp)_n and (μd)_n atoms in the initial states with the principal quantum number n = 3–9 and at relative energies E = 0.1–100 eV. The obtained results for the n and E dependences of the Coulomb deexcitation cross sections drastically differ from the semiclassical results. An important contribution of the transitions with Δn > 1 to the total Coulomb deexcitation cross sections (up to ～37%) is predicted.     

High energy collisions of protonated water clusters

We have measured attenuation cross sections and fragmentation cross sections for protonated water clusters H(H₂O)_n ⁺ (n = 1 to 100) colliding with noble gas atoms (He and Xe) at a laboratory energy of 50 keV. In collisions with He, a transparency effect in the attenuation cross section was observed. For the case of fragmentation in collisions with Xe, a strong enhancement of small clusters was observed which we attribute to multifragmentation. Received 30 November 2000     

Multielectron ionization of atoms by fast ions: An approximation by normalized exponentials

Multielectron ionization of neutral atoms by fast positive ions is considered in terms of the independent particle model. A relatively simple technique for calculating the multielectron ionization probabilities and cross sections through the impact parameter is suggested in which one-electron ionization probabilities are represented as normalized exponentials p _nl(b) = p _nl(b) = p _nl(0)exp(?α_nl b), where b is the impact parameter and n and l are quantum numbers of the target atomic shell. Exponent α_nl is determined from the Born one-electron ionization cross section for target atoms, and preexponential p _nl(0) (the ionization probability at a zero impact parameter) is found from a geometrical model. This technique provides the normalization condition p _nl(b) ≤ 1 irrespective of the velocity and charge of striking ions and makes it possible to calculate the one-, two-, and three-electron ionization cross sections, which, when added up, make a major contribution to the total cross section, up to a factor of 2. The results of our computations are compared with experimental data and analytical results of other authors.     

Charmonium suppression by gluon bremsstrahlung in p-A and A-B collisions

Prompt gluons are an additional source for charmonium suppression in nuclear collisions, in particular for nucleus-nucleus collisions. These gluons are radiated as bremsstrahlung in N-N collisions and interact inelastically with the charmonium states while the nuclei still overlap. The spectra and mean number <n _g> of the prompt gluons are calculated perturbatively and the inelastic cross section σ_abs ^Ψg is estimated. The integrated cross sections σ(A B →J/ψX) for p-A and A-B collisions and the dependence on transverse energy for S-U and Pb-Pb can be described quantitatively with some adjustment of one parameter <n _g>σ_abs ^Ψg. Received: 20 August 1999     

Effect of the target density on the cross section of charge exchange between fast ions and atoms

When fast X^q+ X^{q^ + } ions collide with atomic or molecular targets, the total charge exchange cross section decreases with increasing target density. This is because the excitation levels of resulting X^{(q - 1)+} X^{(q - 1)^ + } ions are suppressed because of ionization by target atoms. The effect of target density on the total charge exchange cross section may amount to one order of magnitude or more depending on the charge and energy of an incident ion, as well as on the density and inner shell configuration of target atoms. Numerical calculations are performed for partial (in the principal quantum number n) cross sections σ(n) and total cross sections σ_tot=Σ_nσ(n) of charge exchange in the case of collisions of fast multiply charged ions having an energy E in the range 100 keV/u-10 MeV/u with gas or solid targets.     

Halo Structure of 19C via the (p,d) Reaction

 We have investigated the heaviest one-neutron halo candidate, the ¹⁹C nucleus. Few-body model calculations of cross-section angular distributions for the ¹⁹C(p,d)¹⁸C reaction together with test calculations carried out for the ¹⁷C(p,d)¹⁶C reaction at a low incident energy are presented for different possible halo-neutron configurations. We show that there is a clear distinction in particular between l _n  = 0 and l _n  = 2 halo transfers. The sensitivity of the cross sections to the assumed ¹⁹C single-neutron separation energy is discussed. Received October 13, 1999; revised November 25, 1999; accepted for publication April 29, 2000     

Complex scattering potential – ionization contribution (CSP-ic) method for calculating total ionization cross sections on electron impact

In this article, we report calculations of total ionization cross sections, Q _ion , for simple atoms (C, N, O, F) and molecules (NO and NH₃)_{3}) of atmospheric interest on electron impact at energies from threshold to 2000 eV. We have employed the complex scattering potential – ionization contribution (CSP-ic) method for the present study. Attempt has been made to improve the method by computing the parameter that involves the ratio of sum of the total excitation cross sections (Σ Q _exc ) and total inelastic cross section (Q _inel ) at the peak of the inelastic cross section. The present study not only provided a better estimation of the parameter involved in the CSP-ic method but also provided better agreement with the available experimental and theoretical data on the ionization cross sections of the simple atomic and molecular targets studied here.     

Single electron loss by fast ions in helium

The single electron loss cross sections for fast B, N, and Ne ions colliding with He atoms are calculated. In the calculation of the ionization amplitude, the He nucleus screening is taken into account by both the sum rule and the summation over a finite number of excited 1snl (n < 5, l < 2) states and states of the continuous spectrum. The calculated results agree satisfactorily with experimental data.     

Photoionization of the outer electrons in noble gas endohedral atoms

We suggest a prominent modification of the outer shell photoionization cross section in noble gas (NG) endohedral atoms NG@C _n under the action of the electron shell of fullerene C _n . This shell leads to two important effects: a strong enhancement of the cross section due to fullerene shell polarization under the action of the incoming electromagnetic wave and to prominent oscillation of this cross section due to the reflection of a photoelectron from the NG by the fullerene shell. Both factors lead to powerful maxima in the outer shell ionization cross sections of NG@C _n , which we call giant endohedral resonances. The oscillator strength reaches a very large value in the atomic scale, 25. We consider atoms of all noble gases except He. The polarization of the fullerene shell is expressed in terms of the total photoabsorption cross section of the fullerene. The photoelectron reflection is taken into account in the framework of the so-called bubble potential, which is a spherical δ-type potential. It is assumed in the derivations that the NG is centrally located in the fullerene. It is also assumed, in accordance with the existing experimental data, that the fullerene radius R _C is much larger than the atomic radius r _A and the thickness Δ_C of the fullerene shell. As was demonstrated recently, these assumptions allow us to represent the NG@C _n photoionization cross section as a product of the NG cross section and two well-defined calculated factors. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Complex cross sections of spin exchange in collisions of sodium and potassium atoms in the ground state

Complex cross sections of the spin exchange are calculated for the first time for interacting Na and K atoms based on the data on the singlet (X ¹Σ⁺) and triplet (a ³Σ⁺) potentials that describe the interaction of these alkali-metal atoms in the ground state. The obtained cross sections allow one to theoretically consider the polarization transfer processes and calculate the relaxation times and the magnetic resonance frequency shifts caused by Na-K spin-exchange collisions.     

The polarization-angular structure and elliptical dichroism of the cross sections for three-photon bound-bound transitions in atoms

Using the electric dipole approximation, we present, in invariant form, the cross section of an arbitrary three-photon transition between the discrete states of an atom with total angular momenta J _i and J _f. The cross section contains scalar and mixed products of the photon polarization vectors, and invariant atomic parameters dependent only on the photon frequencies. We determine the number of independent atomic parameters at fixed values of J _i and J _f and obtain their explicit expressions in terms of the reduced composite dipole matrix elements. The polarization dependence of the cross sections is expressed in terms of the degrees l and ξ of linear and circular photon polarizations. We analyze the phenomenon of dissipation-induced circular dichroism in three-photon processes, i.e., the difference Δ of the cross sections for opposite signs of the degree of circular polarization of all the photons. We study in detail the case of two identical photons and the phenomenon of elliptical dichroism, when Δ∼lξ holds and dichroism occurs only when the photons are elliptically polarized, with 0<|ξ|<1. Finally, we discuss the dissipation-induced effects of atom polarization in three-photon processes involving linearly polarized or unpolarized photons. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 111, 1984–2000 (June 1997)