Excitation of the 3p{sup 5} 5p levels of argon from the 3p{sup 5} 4s metastable states

Journal Article · Wed Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.76.024701· OSTI ID:21016065

Sharma, Lalita; Srivastava, Rajesh ^[1]; Stauffer, A D ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 247667 (India)
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 (Canada)

In the light of recent experimental results of Jung et al. [Phys. Rev. A 75, 052707 (2007)], we have carried out relativistic distorted wave calculations for electron impact excitation of the ten higher-lying fine-structure levels of the 3p{sup 5} 5p configuration of argon from the lowest metastable states (the J=0,2 levels of the 3p{sup 5} 4s configuration). We compare our theoretical results with their experimental results and discuss the differences from the similar excitation to the 3p{sup 5} 4s levels from the same metastable states.

• OSTI ID: 21016065
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 76, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.024701; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ARGON
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
CONFIGURATION
DISTORTED WAVE THEORY
ELECTRON-ATOM COLLISIONS
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
ELECTRONS
EXCITATION
FINE STRUCTURE
METASTABLE STATES
RELATIVISTIC RANGE