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Even-parity quartet autodetaching states of He/sup -/

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OSTI ID:5604167

The total photodetachment cross section of the metastable, (1s2s2p) /sup 4/P/sup 0/ state of He/sup -/ has been recently measured at several wavelengths between 10 ..mu.. and 308 nm. As part of these calculations, the even parity, quartet, autodetaching states of He/sup -/ which are optically connected to the metastable /sup 4/P/sup 0/ state and which are associated with the n = 2 and n = 3 states of He were studied. In both the photodetachment and electron scattering calculations, extensive configuration interaction (CI) wavefunctions were used to describe the He target states, the He/sup -/ resonance states and the photodetachment continua. The Stieltjes moment-theory technique was used to extract the partial photodetachment cross sections from the discrete representations of the electron scattering continua. The use of the Stieltjes technique allowed the inclusion of both channel-channel coupling and fully correlated He /sup 3/S and /sup 3/P/sup 0/ wavefunctions in the calculations. Results are presented and discussed. (WHK)

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
5604167
Report Number(s):
UCRL-86383; CONF-810785-1; ON: DE82005985
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English