Calculation of electron impact total, ionization, and nonbreakup cross sections from the 3[ital S] and 3[ital P] states of sodium

Journal Article · Mon Aug 22 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · Physical Review Letters; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1088· OSTI ID:7072247

Bray, I ^[1]

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1. Electronic Structure of Materials Centre, The Flinders University of South Australia, G.P.O. Box 2100, Adelaide 5001 (Australia)

We present convergent close-coupling calculations of the total, ionization, and nonbreakup cross sections for electron impact of Na 3[ital S] and 3[ital P] states. We show that the total and nonbreakup cross sections converge rapidly with increasing target orbital angular momentum [ital l][sub max] used in the close-coupling expansion. The total ionization cross section is less rapidly convergent, and typically has the largest partial contribution from ionization of the [ital l]=[ital l][sub max] states. The total cross sections and total ionization spin asymmetries are in excellent quantitative agreement with experiment. However, the total ionization cross section from the 3[ital S] state is approximately a factor of 2 lower.

• OSTI ID: 7072247
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 73:8; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
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EXCITED STATES
IONIZATION
SPIN
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TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS
ALKALI METALS
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
ATOM COLLISIONS
COLLISIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
DATA
ELECTRON COLLISIONS
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