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Atoms, Volume 12, Issue 8

August 2024 - 5 articles

Cover Story: Dye-laser light influences the electrical properties of gas discharges. The impedance of a discharge, being sensitive to laser wavelengths corresponding to electronic transitions of atoms present in the discharge, yields the optogalvanic spectrum of the discharge (i.e., electrical conductivity vs. frequency). Electrical impedance signatures occur in non-equilibrium dynamics and can be in the order of 0–10%, depending on the species, the transition, and the oscillatory nature of any dynamic forcing.  Instead of obtaining a neon spectrum from laser-wavelength-dependent deviations in the frequency of the discharge-recombination cycle, we apply a nearly-entraining driving force to such a self-oscillating circuit and obtain the optogalvanic beat-frequency spectrum with a signal-to-noise ratio 50 times larger than previous methods allow. View this paper
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Articles (5)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,322 Views
9 Pages

19 August 2024

The narrowband light from a scannable, single-mode dye laser influences the electrical properties of gas discharges. The variation in these properties as the laser wavelength λ is scanned yields the optogalvanic spectrum of the discharge (i.e....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,483 Views
11 Pages

8 August 2024

Magnesium monofluoride is a polar molecule amenable to laser cooling which has caused renewed interest in its spectroscopy. In this work, we consider the case of three low-lying electronic excitations, namely X2Σ+→A2Π, X2Σ+→B...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
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15 Pages

Electron and Positron Impact Ionization of Molecules

  • Ladislau Nagy,
  • István Tóth and
  • Radu I. Campeanu

23 July 2024

We review our group’s most significant results concerning the collision of positrons and electrons with small molecules. Total and triple differential cross sections for the ionization of these targets were calculated in the distorted wave Born...

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