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Title: Multiconfigurational Hartree-Fock calculations of hyperfine-induced transitions in heliumlike ions

Journal Article · · Physical Review A; (United States)
;  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moleculaire, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Code Postal 160/09, 50 avenue F. Roosevelt, B-1050, Brussels (Belgium)
  2. Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 118, S-22100 Lund (Sweden)
  3. Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 (United States)

We are investigating the hyperfine quenching of 1[ital s]2[ital p] [sup 3][ital P][sub 0][sup [ital o]] for the three heliumlike ions [sup 19]F[sup 7+], [sup 23]Na[sup 9+], and [sup 27]Al[sup 11+] in the multiconfigurational Hartree-Fock-Breit-Pauli scheme. The configuration expansions are generated with the active-space method and are increased in a systematic way, allowing the convergence of the calculated parameters to be studied. A careful comparison is done with the pioneering work of Mohr using a perturbation approach [[ital Beam]-[ital Foil] [ital Spectroscopy], [ital Atomic] [ital Structure] [ital and] [ital Lifetimes], edited by I. Sellin and D. Pegg (Plenum, New York, 1976), Vol. 1, pp. 97--103]. In the present calculations the orbital and spin-dipole magnetic contributions, which were previously neglected, are added to the dominant Fermi contact interaction term and a detailed analysis of the hyperfine induced transition rate is done in order to learn how to get an accurate description of the property in the multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock-Breit-Pauli approximation.

OSTI ID:
6585146
Journal Information:
Physical Review A; (United States), Vol. 51:3; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English