Dissociative excitation of the odd quartet <Emphasis Type="Italic">S,P, D</Emphasis>, and <Emphasis Type="Italic">F</Emphasis> levels of the manganese atom in e-MnCl<Subscript>2</Subscript> collisions

The dissociative excitation of the ⁴ S°, ⁴ P°, ⁴ D°, and ⁴ F° levels of the manganese atom in collisions of slow electrons iwth manganese dichloride molecules is studied experimentally. It is found that the dissociative excitation cross sections for these levels are larger than the cross sections of direct excitation in the e-Mn collisions. The cross section ratios of the electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions, which characterize the effect of the chemical bond of the manganese atom with the halogen on the absolute excitation cross sections, are determined.     

Inelastic collisions of slow electrons with SrBr<Subscript>2</Subscript> molecules

Inelastic collisions of slow electrons with SrBr₂ molecules were studied experimentally. The dissociative excitation cross sections of two lines of the strontium atom and eight lines of the singly charged strontium ion were measured. Six optical excitation functions were recorded over the electron energy range 0–100 eV. Dissociative excitation cross sections were also measured for two strontium monobromide sequences related to the B ²Σ⁺-X ²Σ⁺ system.     

Dissociative Excitation of the Even Quartet and Sextet Levels of the Manganese Atom by Collisions of Electrons with Manganese Diiodide Molecules

Dissociative excitation of even quartet and sextet levels of the manganese atom by electron collisions with manganese diiodide molecules was studied experimentally. Twelve excitation cross-sections for transitions from quartet levels and 23 cross-sections for transitions from sextet levels were measured at an incident electron energy of 100 eV. The optical excitation function (OEF) was recorded in the range of electron energies 0?100 eV for transitions originating at the 3d⁵4s4de⁶D_J levels. The potential channels of dissociative excitation in the range of low electron energies (E < 22 eV) were discussed.     

Excitation of the Yb II transitions terminating on the low-lying odd levels

Excitation of the transitions from the even levels of a singly charged ytterbium ion that terminate on the low-lying odd levels 4f ¹³(² F°)6s ^{2 2} F°, 4f ¹⁴(¹ S)6p ² P°, and 4f ¹³(² F°_7/2)5d6p(³ D)³[3/2]° is experimentally studied by measuring 51 excitation cross sections at an electron energy of 50 eV, and 16 optical excitation functions are determined within the electron energy range 0–200 eV. The largest magnitudes of the measured cross sections exceed 3 × 10^?17 cm².     

Behavior of the excitation cross sections of the perturbed series of the xenon atom

Behavior of the excitation cross sections of the perturbed 6s[3/2]_n°?np[1/2]₀ spectral series of the xenon atom is experimentally studied. By using the methods of extended electron beam and optical spectroscopy, the cross sections are measured and the optical excitation functions are recorded for the transitions of this series with n=6–13. A deviation of the dependence Q=f(n) from a power-law function is revealed, as well as changes in the form of optical excitation functions and in the nature of the branching caused by perturbation of the 7p[1/2]₀ level by levels of the 5p ⁵(² P _1/2°)6p configuration.     

Excitation of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis> levels of a Sc atom in collisions with slow electrons

The excitation of the G and H levels of a Sc atom by slow electrons was investigated experimentally. Thirty-six excitation cross sections of the Sc(I) spectral lines were measured at an electron energy of 30 eV. Fourteen optical excitation functions were recorded in the range of electron energies 0–200 eV. Most of the optical excitation functions have a complex structure. The magnitudes of the cross sections are compared with previous experimental data.     

Excitation of a singly charged Sr Ion by e-Sr collisions

Excitation of spectral lines of SrII, including laser lines, is studied experimentally in collisions of slow electrons with strontium atoms. Twenty-one excitation cross sections are measured at an energy of electrons of 30 eV. Five optical excitation functions are recorded at an energy ranging from 0 to 200 eV. Direct-excitation cross sections for the 5p ² P°_{1/2, 3/2} levels and the contribution to their population by cascade transitions are calculated. Excitation cross sections of two laser transitions in the IR spectral region are determined using known branching ratios. The results obtained are compared with data of previous experiments.     

The dissociative excitation of odd doublet cobalt atom levels in collisions of electrons with cobalt dichloride molecules

The extended crossed beam method was used to measure the dissociative excitation cross sections in e-CoCl₂ collisions for 91 transitions from odd doublet levels of cobalt atoms. The dissociative and direct CoI excitation cross sections were compared. Possible reaction channels at low electron energies were considered. The results were used to calculate the total dissociative excitation cross section of CoI levels at an exciting electron energy of 100 eV. For the z ² F°, z ² G°, and y ² G° levels, cascade population contributions were also determined.     

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.     

Excitation of resonance lines of the cadmium ion by monoenergetic electrons

The excitation of resonance lines at 226.5 and 214.4 nm, corresponding to the transitions 226.5 (5p ² P ₁ ^2/0 →5s ² S _1/2) and 5p ² P ₃ ^2/0 → 5s ² S _1/2, respectively, in the Cd⁺ ion upon collisions with monoenergetic electrons with an energy in the range of 4–130 eV is studied with high precision by a spectroscopic method in crossing beams. It is found that the dependence of the effective excitation cross sections of the resonance doublet components on the energy of the electrons has a distinct resonance structure. It is shown that the dominant mechanism responsible for this structure is the capture of an incident electron by a Cd⁺ ion with the simultaneous excitation of an electron from the subvalence 4d ¹⁰ shell to the autoionizing states of the Cd atom with their subsequent decay (directly or via cascade transitions) to resonance levels of the ion. The results obtained are compared with data from other experiments and with the results of the R-matrix strong-coupling calculation of 15 states and of semiempirical calculation using the Van Regemorter formula.     

Electronic excitation of Ar atoms to metastable states and from metastable to higher states

The formation of the metastable states 3p ⁵4s of the Ar atom by an electron impact and the electronic excitation from these states to the higher levels 3p ⁵4p ArI are investigated in detail. The electronic excitation cross sections are determined based on a previously proposed approach to generalization of experimental and theoretical results. The method proposed consists in interpolation over the entire set of cross sections for each of the investigated levels of the Ar atom (measured by us previously or taken from the literature) using the four-parameter approximation of the dependences of the cross sections on the energy of incident electrons.     

Processes of dissociative excitation in collisions of electrons with CaI<Subscript>2</Subscript> molecules

The dissociative excitation of calcium atoms and ions and calcium monoiodide in e-CaI₂ collisions was studied by the method of extended crossing beams. The excitation cross sections of calcium atoms and ions in electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions are compared. The main channels of the reactions at low electron energies are discussed.     

Coulomb Rydberg electron <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis>-mixing in collisions with atomic ions

The cross sections of the Rydberg electron L-mixing in a hydrogen atom and a hydrogen-like ion are calculated for slow collisions with atomic ions H*(n, L) + A⁺ = H*(n, L′) + A⁺ without variation of the principal quantum number n. The probability of the L-mixing L → L′ is associated with the quantum interference of the wave functions of adiabatic states, i.e., with the mixing of the time phases of these functions exp(?i∫E _k (t)dt). The effective cross section of such L-mixing for the states with n = 28 are 4–5 orders of magnitude greater than the cross sections determined in previous investigations. The expansion coefficients of spherical Coulomb wave functions in terms of parabolic ones and vice versa, which are necessary for determining cross sections, are calculated on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the spatial properties of these functions.     

Excitation of even levels of erbium atoms without a change in the number of 4<Emphasis Type="Italic">f</Emphasis> electrons

The excitation of even levels of erbium atoms by slow electrons that occurs without a change in the number of electrons in the 4f shell is experimentally studied. The levels investigated belong to the 4f ¹²6s7s, 4f ¹²5d6s, 4f ¹²6s6d configurations. The cross sections measured at an electron energy of 30 eV lie within the range (0.2–18) × 10^?18 cm².     

Evaluated Integral Cross Sections of the <Superscript>3</Superscript>H(<Emphasis Type="Italic">t</Emphasis>,2<Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>)<Superscript>4</Superscript>He Reaction in the Low-Energy Region Obtained with Regard to Electron Screening

procedure is considered for analyzing ³H(t,2n)⁴He reaction proceeding in a gas environment with regard to electron screening [1–4]. Results from such an analysis are presented. An electron screening potential of 121 eV is obtained. The magnitude of this potential is three times higher than the one given in [5]. Starting with a 100 eV energy of particle interaction the cross sections of ³H(t,2n)⁴He reaction are calculated using the above potential. The reaction rates are calculated using the evaluated cross sections in the lowenergy region. Enhancement factors for cross sections and reaction rates are defined.     

Precision measurements of optical excitation functions for the cadmium atom

An experimental setup and a technique for the investigation of excitation of atoms by ultramonoenergetic electrons are described. The optical excitation functions are given for 14 spectral lines of the cadmium atom originating from the n ¹ S ₀, 5¹ P ₁, n ³ S ₁, 5³ P ₁, and n ³ D _j levels. More than 150 specific features are found in the energy dependences of the effective excitation cross sections measured from the excitation threshold to 16 eV. The most pronounced of these features are in good agreement with the fine structure observed previously. The main mechanisms of the initial-level population, namely, the direct transition of an electron from the ground atomic state to the initial level of a spectral line, the population of the initial levels due to the decay of short-lived states of a negative ion, and the cascade population, are separated. In the excitation functions of the lines originating from the n ¹ S ₀ levels, in the energy range from 10.9 to 12.4 eV, we observed for the first time an effect of postcollision interactions of emitted and scattered electrons in the vicinity of the thresholds of four autoionization states of the cadmium atom.     

The dissociative excitation of cobalt atom even sextet levels in collisions of electrons with CoCl2 molecules

The cross sections of dissociative excitation of 46 transitions from cobalt atom even sextet levels in collisions of electrons with CoCl₂ molecules were measured at an exciting electron energy of 100 eV. The dissociative and direct CoI excitation cross sections were compared. The results were used to calculate the total cross sections of dissociative excitation of CoI levels at an electron energy of 100 eV. Possible reaction channels at low electron energies are discussed.     

Single-electron charge transfer and excitations at collisions between Bi<Superscript>4+</Superscript> ions in the kiloelectronvolt energy range

Pioneering theoretical data for single-electron charge transfer and excitations due to collisions between Bi⁴⁺ ions in the ground (6s) and metastable (6p) states are gained in the collision energy interval 5–75 keV in the center-of-mass frame. The cross sections of the processes are calculated in terms of the close-coupling method in the basis of two-electron quasi-molecular states for the Coulomb trajectory of nuclei. It is found that single-electron capture into the singlet 6s ² states of Bi³⁺ ions makes a major contribution to the charge transfer total cross section for Bi⁴⁺(6s) + Bi⁴⁺(6s) collisions (reaction 1), whereas single-electron capture into the singlet 6s6p states is the basic contributor to the total cross section in Bi⁴⁺(6s) + Bi⁴⁺(6p) collisions (reaction 2). In the collision energy interval mentioned above, the collision cross sections vary between 1.2 × 10^?17 and 1.9 × 10^?17 cm² for reaction 1 and between 3.8 × 10^?17 and 5.3 × 10^?17 cm² for reaction 2. In reaction 1, the 6s → 6p excitation cross sections vary from 0.6 × 10^?16 to 0.8 × 10^?16 cm² for the singlet channel and from 2.2 × 10^?16 to 2.8 × 10^?16 cm² for the triplet channel. The calculation results are compared with the data obtained in experiments with crossed ion beams of kiloelectronvolt energy. The fraction of metastable ions in the beams is estimated by comparing the experimental data with the weighted average theoretical results for the cross sections of reactions 1 and 2. From the data for the charge transfer cross sections, one can estimate particle losses in relativistic beams due to a change in the charge state of the ions colliding with each other in the beam because of betatron oscillations.     

Ionization,charge exchange,and excitation during collisions of sodium ions with argon

The absolute values of cross sections of ionization, charge exchange, and excitation during Na⁺-Ar collisions are measured in the ion energy range 0.5–10.0 keV. Experiments are performed by a modified method of transverse electric field and by the optical spectrometry method. The mechanisms for realization of inelastic channels are explained qualitatively on the basis of a schematic correlation diagram of diabatic quasi-molecular energy levels of a system of colliding particles. The quasi-molecular nature of interaction is revealed for excitation processes. The excitation mechanisms of collision partners are established. A noticeable contribution to the excitation of the 4s state of the argon atom comes from the cascade transition from upper-lying 4p and 3d levels. An oscillatory structure is observed in the excitation functions of atomic lines of ArI (104.8 and 106.7 nm). The shape of the curve describing the dependence of the charge-exchange cross section on the collision energy is explained by the presence of two nonadiabaticity regions. In the low-energy region (up to E = 2 keV), charge exchange is due to electron capture to the ground state as a result of Σ–Σ transitions, while Σ–Π transitions associated with the rotation of internuclear axis play the leading role in charge exchange in the energy range E > 3 keV. The contribution of a number of inelastic channel is estimated for the ionization process. It is found that the main contribution to ionization is associated with the decay of self-ionization states in an isolated atom.     

Excitation of triplet <Emphasis Type="Italic">D</Emphasis> levels of barium atoms in collisions with electrons

The excitation of triplet D levels of the barium atom by slow electrons, which gives rise to optical emission due to spontaneous transitions from these levels, is experimentally studied. 85 excitation cross sections are measures at an exciting electron energy of 30 eV. 16 optical excitation functions are recorded within the electron energy range of 0–200 eV. The results obtained for seven transitions are compared with previously published experimental data.