Electron impact excitation of helium atom

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/24/8/083103

Abstract

A method to deal with the electron impact excitation cross sections of an atom from low to high incident energies are presented. This method combines the partial wave method and the first Born approximation (FBA), i.e., replacing the several lowest partial wave cross sections of the total cross sections within FBA by the corresponding exact partial wave cross sections. A new set of codes are developed to calculate the FBA partial wave cross sections. Using this method, the convergent e–He collision cross sections of optical-forbidden and optical-allowed transitions at low to high incident energies are obtained. The calculation results demonstrate the validity and efficiency of the method.

Keywords: electron impact excitation cross section first Born approximation partial wave method

Received: 03 March 2015
Revised: 13 April 2015
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PACS:	31.15.A-	(Ab initio calculations)
	34.80.-i	(Electron and positron scattering)

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Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CB921501 and 2013CB922200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11274035, 11275029, 11328401, 11371218, 11474031, 11474032, and 11474034), and the Foundation of Development of Science and Technology of Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (Grant Nos. 2013A0102005 and 2014A0102005).

Corresponding Authors: Han Xiao-Ying
E-mail: han_xiaoying@iapcm.ac.cn

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Han Xiao-Ying (韩小英), Zeng De-Ling (曾德灵), Gao Xiang (高翔), Li Jia-Ming (李家明) Electron impact excitation of helium atom 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 083103

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