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Atoms, Volume 8, Issue 2

2020 June - 22 articles

Cover Story: Figure 2: Electron elastic scattering total cross sections (TCSs) in a.u. for atomic Lu, typical of those for complex systems. The red, blue, brown, and green curves are TCSs for ground, metastable, and the two excited states, respectively. They are generally characterized by ground, metastable, and excited negative ion formation, with the dramatically sharp lines corresponding to Lu− anionic formation during the collision, Ramsauer–Townsend minima, and shape resonances. The novelty and generality of the Regge pole approach used to calculate the TCSs, requiring no assistance whatsoever, is in the extraction of the anionic binding energies of complex heavy systems from the calculated electron TCSs, with those for the ground state yielding unambiguous electron affinities. The results should be useful in guiding measurements, nanocatalysis, and organic solar cells. View this paper.
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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,686 Views
8 Pages

Ionization Cross Sections in the Collision between Two Ground State Hydrogen Atoms at Low Energies

  • Saed J. Al Atawneh,
  • Örs Asztalos,
  • Borbála Szondy,
  • Gergő I. Pokol and
  • Károly Tőkési

22 June 2020

The interaction between two ground state hydrogen atoms in a collision was studied using the four-body classical trajectory Monte Carlo method. We present the total cross sections for the dominant channels, namely for the single ionization of the tar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,443 Views
22 Pages

15 June 2020

In this study, we analyzed the light absorption by diatomic molecules or colliding atoms in a spectral region dominated by an avoided crossing of adiabatic state levels or crossing of the corresponding diabatic state levels. Our attention was focused...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,076 Views
11 Pages

3 June 2020

The interaction between Be4+ and hydrogen atom is studied using the three-body classical trajectory Monte Carlo method (CTMC) and the quasiclassical trajectory Monte Carlo method of Kirschbaum and Wilets (QTMC-KW). We present total cross sections for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,426 Views
12 Pages

29 May 2020

We investigate ionization of atomic hydrogen by electron- and positron-impact. We apply the Coulomb–Born (CB1) approximation, various modified CB1 approximations, the three body distorted wave (3DW) approximation, and the time-dependent close-couplin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,680 Views
9 Pages

Photoionization of KCs Molecule: Origin of the Structured Continuum?

  • Goran Pichler,
  • Robert Beuc,
  • Jahja Kokaj,
  • David Sarkisyan,
  • Nimmy Jose and
  • Joseph Mathew

28 May 2020

We report the experimental observation of photoionization bands of the KCs molecule in the deep ultraviolet spectral region between 200 and 420 nm. We discuss the origin of observed photoionization bands as stemming from the absorption from the groun...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,387 Views
30 Pages

Laboratory Courses on Laser Spectroscopy and Atom Trapping

  • Hermina C. Beica,
  • Shoshana Winter,
  • Carson Mok,
  • Brynle Barrett,
  • Rob Berthiaume,
  • Andrejs Vorozcovs,
  • Fadi Yachoua,
  • Nima Afkhami-Jeddi,
  • Monika Aggarwal and
  • A. Kumarakrishnan
  • + 5 authors

28 May 2020

We present an overview of experiments covered in two semester-length laboratory courses dedicated to laser spectroscopy and atom trapping. These courses constitute a powerful approach for teaching experimental physics in a manner that is both contemp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,111 Views
14 Pages

19 May 2020

We report on a complete optogalvanic spectrum of a discharge burning in a La-Ar gas mixture, in the spectral range 5610–6110 Å (17,851 to 16,364 cm−1). About 1900 overlapping laser scans, each between 1 and 1.5 cm−1 wide, were necessary to cover this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,142 Views
15 Pages

16 May 2020

We present an analytic calculation of Branching Ratio (BR) and Charge-Parity (CP) violating asymmetries of the B s 0 ¯ meson decay into the two light vectors ϕ ϕ . In doing this we calculate the helicity amplitude of the prese...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,634 Views
18 Pages

11 May 2020

Emission lines of singly charged ions populate many astrophysical spectra. However, the interpretation of the line intensities (usually line ratios) often depends on the transition rates of the decays of very long-lived low-lying levels. For example,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,648 Views
9 Pages

6 May 2020

A multi-body multi-center quasiclassical model was used to determine doubly- and triply-differential cross sections following single ionization in 3.6 MeV/amu Au53+ + He collisions. The present model improved recent calculations, in which free electr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,739 Views
20 Pages

2 May 2020

The main purpose of the Database on Rare Earths At Mons University (DREAM) is to provide the scientific community with updated spectroscopic parameters related to lanthanide atoms (Z = 57–71) in their lowest ionization stages. The radiative parameter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,368 Views
12 Pages

Referencing Sources of Molecular Spectroscopic Data in the Era of Data Science: Application to the HITRAN and AMBDAS Databases

  • Frances M. Skinner,
  • Iouli E. Gordon,
  • Christian Hill,
  • Robert J. Hargreaves,
  • Kelly E. Lockhart and
  • Laurence S. Rothman

30 April 2020

The application described has been designed to create bibliographic entries in large databases with diverse sources automatically, which reduces both the frequency of mistakes and the workload for the administrators. This new system uniquely identifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,198 Views
12 Pages

30 April 2020

The robust Regge-pole methodology wherein is fully embedded the essential electron-electron correlation effects and the vital core polarization interaction has been used to explore negative ion formation in the large lanthanide Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, an...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
97 Citations
6,393 Views
24 Pages

The Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database (LAMDA): Current Status, Recent Updates, and Future Plans

  • Floris F. S. van der Tak,
  • François Lique,
  • Alexandre Faure,
  • John H. Black and
  • Ewine F. van Dishoeck

28 April 2020

The Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database (LAMDA) collects spectroscopic information and collisional rate coefficients for molecules, atoms, and ions of astrophysical and astrochemical interest. We describe the developments of the database since its i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,698 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2020

To overcome the numerical difficulties inherent in the Maxwell–Boltzmann integral of the velocity-weighted cross section that gives the radiative attachment rate coefficient α R A for producing the negative hydrogen ion H &m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,357 Views
13 Pages

Elastic Photon Scattering on Hydrogenic Atoms near Resonances

  • Dmitrii Samoilenko,
  • Andrey V. Volotka and
  • Stephan Fritzsche

18 April 2020

Scattering of light on relativistic heavy ion beams is widely used for characterizing and tuning the properties of both the light and the ion beam. Its elastic component—Rayleigh scattering—is investigated in this work for photon energies close to ce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,682 Views
9 Pages

Differential Study of Projectile Coherence Effects on Double Capture Processes in p + Ar Collisions

  • Trevor Voss,
  • Basu R. Lamichhane,
  • Madhav Dhital,
  • Ramaz Lomsadze and
  • Michael Schulz

28 March 2020

We have measured differential yields for double capture and double capture accompanied by ionization in 75 keV p + Ar collisions. Data were taken for two different transverse projectile coherence lengths. A small effect of the projectile coherence pr...

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