Photoionization of the excited He atom in Debye plasmas

We present theoretical photoionization cross sections for He 1s2s ¹S and He 1s2p ¹P states in a Debye plasma environment by the complex coordinate rotation method, using a finite L² basis set constructed from one electron Laguerre orbitals. The plasma environment is found to appreciably influence the photoionization cross sections near the ionization threshold. In this regard, the photoionization cross sections of isolated He are compared with other theoretical and experimental results. Our results are in good agreement with the previous results. A new minimum appears in the photoionization cross section curve for the metastable 1s2s ¹S state. Results are given for the S- and D-wave partial photoionization for the excited 1s2p ¹P state.     

An experimental setup for spectroscopy applications of optically generated VUV and XUV radiation

In this paper, we present an experimental setup to study photoionization of atoms and molecules using the high-order harmonic radiation generated by a highly non-linear process. We report on the characteristics of this table-top experimental apparatus showing also the results of the photoionization of krypton gas, by the use of the ninth order harmonic of fs Ti : S laser, observed both in the electron spectrum and in the mass spectrum.     

Diagrammatic Representation of Electronic Correlations in Photoionization Process: Application to Scandium

The conversion rules under which an algebraic expression can be obtained from a corresponding photoionization Goldstone diagram have been given systematically in the present work. The electronic correlations in the photoionization processes then could be studied diagrammatically. The application to atomic scandium shows that the present theoretical scheme can give reasonable photoionization cross sections, which agree well with the experimental results.     

A direct comparison between gas-phase and solid-state Hg 5d photoionization processes

We present an experimental study of the Hg 5d spin-orbit intensity branching ratio in the photon energy range 18–100 eV. The results obtained on cleaved α-HgS exhibit strong differences with respect to the recent gas-phase data by Shannon and Codling. This is the first time that $\text{experimental}$ results on gas-phase photoionization and $\text{experimental}$ results on solid-state photoionization of the same core levels are directly compared to each other. The evidence we provide for solid-state effects in the photoionization process is, therefore, independent of any particular theoretical interpretation of the data.     

Standoff detection of large organic molecules using Rydberg fingerprint spectroscopy and microwave Rayleigh scattering

We present a technique for nonintrusive and standoff detection of large organic molecules using coherent microwave Rayleigh scattering from plasma produced by structure sensitive photoionization through Rydberg states. We test the method on 1,4-diazobicyclooctane. Transitions between the 3s Rydberg state and higher lying Rydberg states are probed using two-color photoionization with 266?nm photons and photons in the range of 460-2400?nm. Photoionization is detected using microwave radiation, which is scattered by the unbounded electrons. Highly resolved Rydberg spectra are acquired in vacuum and in air.     

用组态相互作用理论研究He原子的非谐振光致电离

本文用组态相互作用理论研究Ｈｅ原子的非谐振光致电离。本文详细分析双重激发自电离态，考察第一电离阈值附近的非谐振谱，计算非谐振区的ｅ－Ｈｅ＋，１，３Ｐ散射位相移动及来自ｌｓｎｓ１，３Ｓ的光致电离截面，本文计算结果与实验观测值及现有的理论结果相比较，相当符合。     

Ultracold electron source

We propose a technique for producing electron bunches that has the potential for advancing the state-of-the-art in brightness of pulsed electron sources by orders of magnitude. In addition, this method leads to femtosecond bunch lengths without the use of ultrafast lasers or magnetic compression. The electron source we propose is an ultracold plasma with electron temperatures down to 10 K, which can be fashioned from a cloud of laser-cooled atoms by photoionization just above threshold. Here we present results of simulations in a realistic setting, showing that an ultracold plasma has an enormous potential as a bright electron source.     

Photoionization microscopy

We present the first experimental results of a technique called photoionization microscopy. Photoelectrons ejected in threshold photoionization of Xe are detected in a velocity map imaging apparatus, and interferences between various trajectories by which the electron moves from the atom to the detector are observed. The structure of the interference pattern, which contains the transverse component of the electronic wave function, evolves smoothly with the excess energy above the saddle point. The main observed features are interpreted within the framework of the semiclassical approximation.     

Photoionization cross section of non-hydrogenic levels for weakly coupled plasmas

Photoionization process is a subject of special importance in many areas of physics. Numerical methods must be used in order to obtain photoionization cross-sections for non-hydrogenic levels. The atomic data required to calculate them is huge and self-consistent calculations increase computing time considerably, overall when we are studying plasmas where it is found million of ion levels. Analytical potentials are a useful alternative because they avoid the iterative procedures typical in self-consistent models. In this work, we present a relativistic quantum-mechanic calculation of photoionization cross-sections for non-hydrogenic ions immersed in weakly coupled plasmas. Both the energy levels and bound and free wave functions are determined by means of the Dirac equation. It is employed as effective potential an analytical one developed to model non-isolated many-electron ions making use of the Debye-Hückel approach but including the reaction of the plasma-charge density to the optical electron. The effect of the plasma screening in the photoionization cross-section and in the threshold energy is analyzed as a function of the photon energy, the Debye radius, the ionization and the mono-electronic bound level involved in the transition. Some comparisons between our results and others are also made.     

真空中紫外辐射冲量与铝表面作用的模拟

为研究激光脉冲与真空中被照射的铝靶的耦合作用，进行了理论分析和数值计算，所给的结果是依据包括热传导、气化和等离子体燃烧在内的数学模型得到的。指出了对汽化过程的正确描述和重要性。同时发现双光子电离可导致初始电子数密度和其温度的增加。这一效应，从长远来看会导致激发态原子密度和电子产生速率的增加，但这是以降低光电离的产生为代价的。计算所得冲量耦合和等离子体阈值数据与实验结果吻合的较好。     

Validity of extracting photoionization time delay from the first moment of streaking spectrogram

Photoionization time delays have been studied in many streaking experiments in which an attosecond pulse is used to ionize the atomic or solid state target in the presence of a dressing infrared laser field. Among the methods of extracting the time delay from the streaking spectrogram, the simplest one is to calculate the first moment of the spectrogram and to measure its offset relative to the vector potential of the infrared field. The first moment method has been used in many theoretical simulations and analysis of experimental data, but the meaning of this offset needs to be investigated. We simulate the spectrograms and compare the extracted time delay from the first moment with the input Wigner delay. In this study, we show that the first moment method is valid only when the group delay dispersions corresponding to both the spectral phase of the attosecond pulse and the phase of the single-photon transition dipole matrix element of the target are small. Under such circumstance, the electron wave packet behaves like a classical particle and the extracted time delay can be related to a group delay in the photoionization process. To avoid ambiguity and confusion, we also suggest that the photoionization time delay be replaced by photoionization group delay and the Wigner time delay be replaced by Wigner group delay.     

Spectroscopic studies of laser induced aluminum plasma using fundamental,second and third harmonics of a Nd:YAG laser

In the present work, we have studied the spatial evolution of the aluminum plasma produced by the fundamental (1064 nm), second (532 nm) and third (355 nm) harmonics of a Q-switched pulsed Nd:YAG laser. The experimentally observed line profiles of neutral aluminum have been used to extract the excitation temperature using Boltzmann plot method whereas the electron number density has been determined from the Stark broadened profiles. Besides we have studied the variation of excitation temperature and electron number density as a function of laser irradiance at atmospheric pressure. In addition, we have performed quantitative analysis of photon absorption and vapor ionization mechanism at three laser wavelengths and estimated the inverse bremsstrahlung (IB) absorption and photoionization (PI) coefficients. The validity of the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium is discussed in the light of the experimental results.     

Theoretical studies on the photoionization cross-sections of solid silver

An alternative expression for photoionization cross-section of atoms or molecules and a dielectric influence function （DIF） in a high-density system proposed recently are used to study the photoionization cross-sections of solid silver. It is suggested that a density turning point （DTP） of a photoionized system may be viewed as the critical point where the photoionization properties of atoms in a real system may have a notable change. The results show that the present theoretical photoionization cross-sections are in good agreement with the experimental results of a silver crystal both in structure and in magnitude.     

温稠密等离子体中Al12+离子的光电离过程

本文采用多组态Dirac-Hartree-Fock方法研究了温稠密等离子体环境中Al12+离子的光电离过程. 等离子体效应采用SM屏蔽势来模拟(Stanton和Murillo在2015年提出). 计算中固定标度温度1.3eV,在强耦合等离子体环境下,研究了等离子体密度对能级,连续态波函数以及光电离截面的影响. 通过与相同等离子体条件下的Debye-Hückel模型势计算的光电离截面对比,发现两种模型对应的结果中未同时出现势形共振峰,这是由于本文采用的屏蔽模型包含等离子体简并、有限温度对动能的梯度修正和量子交换关联效应,对光电离截面的大小和共振结构具有显著影响.     

Back-to-back emission of the electrons in double photoionization of helium

We calculate the double differential distributions and distributions in recoil momenta for the high energy non-relativistic double photoionization of helium atom. We show that the results of recent experiments provide the pioneering experimental manifestation of the quasifree mechanism for the double photoionization which was predicted long ago in our papers. This mechanism provides a surplus in distribution over the recoil momenta at small values of the latter, corresponding to nearly ??back-to-back?? emission of the photoelectrons. Also, in agreement with previous analysis we demonstrate that this surplus is due to the quadrupole terms of the photon-electron interaction. We present the characteristic angular distribution for the back-to-back electron emission. The confirmation of the quasifree mechanism existence opens a new area for exciting experiments, which are expected to increase our understanding of the electron dynamics and of the bound states structure.     

Photoionization of CF4 in the VUV region

We present calculated results of photoionization cross sections and photoelectron angular distributions for ionization out of the five outermost valence orbitals of CF₄ for photon energies ranging from near threshold to 55 eV. The Schwinger variational iterative method, using an exact static-exchange plus a model correlation–polarization potential, is applied to obtain the continuum photoelectron orbitals. The quantitative agreement between our calculated results and the experimental data is fair. Moreover, our study is capable of identifying most structures seen in experimental results for both cross sections and asymmetry parameters.     

Dirac R-matrix calculations of photoionization cross sections of Ni XII and atomic structure data of Ni XIII

We performed R-matrix calculations for photoionization cross sections of the two ground state configuration 3s²3p⁵ (²P^o_3/2,1/2) levels and 12 excited states of Ni XII using relativistic Dirac Atomic R-matrix Codes (DARC) across the photon energy range between the ionizations thresholds of the corresponding states and well above the thresholds of the last level of the Ni XIII target ion. Generally, a good agreement is obtained between our results and the earlier theoretical photoionization cross sections. Moreover, we have used two independent fully relativistic GRASP and FAC codes to calculate fine-structure energy levels, wavelengths, oscillator strengths, transitions rates among the lowest 48 levels belonging to the configuration (3s²3p⁴, 3s3p⁵, 3p⁶, 3s²3p³3d) in Ni XIII. Additionally, radiative lifetimes of all the excited states of Ni XIII are presented. Our results of the atomic structure of Ni XIII show good agreement with other theoretical and experimental results available in the literature. A good agreement is found between our calculated lifetimes and the experimental ones. Our present results are useful for plasma diagnostic of fusion and astrophysical plasmas.     

Theoretical Studies on Photoionization Cross Sections of Solid Gold

Accurate expression for photoabsorption (photoionization) cross sections of high density system proposed recently is used to study the photoionization of solid gold. The results show that the present theoretical photoionization cross sections have good agreement both in structure and in magnitude with the experimental results of gold crystal. The studies also indicate that both the real part ε' and the imaginary part ε" of the complex dielectric constant ε, and the dielectric influence function of a nonideal system have rich structures in low energy side with a range about 50 eV, and suggest that the influence of particle interactions of surrounding particles with the photoionized particle on the photoionization cross sections can be easily investigated using the dielectric influence function. The electron overlap effects are suggested to be implemented in the future studies to improve the accuracy of theoretical photoionization cross sections of a solid system.     

R-matrix calculation for photoionization

We have employed the R matrix method to calculate differential cross sections for photoionization of helium leaving helium ion in an excited state for incident photon energy between the N=2 and N=3 thresholds (69～73 eV) of He + ion. Differential cross sections for photoionization in the N=2 level at emission angle 0° are provide. Our results are in good agreement with available experimental data and theoretical calculations.