Cross sections of relativistic radiative electron capture by use of the strong-potential Born calculation
The relativistically extended strong-potential Born (SPB) formalism is applied to the radiative electron capture process caused by the bombardment of a heavy and highly stripped charged particle with relativistically high velocity. The results are compared with those by use of nonrelativistic SPB calculations and with those by use of the relativistic Born calculation (Sauter's formula), which includes no distortion effects between a heavy projectile ion and an active electron. Even if the strong distortion effects are taken into consideration, the shapes of photon angular distributions in the laboratory frame still nearly depend on sin/sup 2/theta/sub L/(theta/sub L/ is the angle of the emitted photon) in the vicinity of the angle of 90/sup 0/, which is the same as the results by use of Sauter's formula. The higher the charge of a projectile ion becomes, however, the greater the discrepancy between the angular shape of our results and that of Sauter's becomes at both smaller and larger angles than at 90/sup 0/. As is expected, the magnitudes of the differential and the total cross sections are drastically influenced by the distortion effects ascribable to a large charge of a heavy projectile ion such as U/sup 92+/. Our results are in good agreement with recent experiments. In addition, the Coulomb off-shell factor introduced by the SPB theory is found playing important roles in the case of the relativistic radiative electron capture process because the results calculated by using the relativistic impulse approximation are too underestimated.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
- OSTI ID:
- 6056714
- Journal Information:
- Phys. Rev. A; (United States), Vol. 36:2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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