Journal article

Publication year: 2011

Journal: Physical review A

Volume number: 83

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1050-2947

eISSN: 1094-1622

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.012711

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 
Dielectronic recombination (DR) of xenonlike W20+ forming W19+ has been studied experimentally at a heavy-ion storage ring. A merged-beams method has been employed for obtaining absolute rate coefficients for electron-ion recombination in the collision-energy range 0-140 eV. The measured rate coefficient is dominated by strong DR resonances even at the lowest experimental energies. At plasma temperatures where the fractional abundance of W20+ is expected to peak in a fusion plasma, the experimentally derived plasma recombination rate coefficient is over a factor of 4 larger than the theoretically calculated rate coefficient which is currently used in fusion plasma modeling. The largest part of this discrepancy stems most probably from the neglect in the theoretical calculations of DR associated with fine-structure excitations of the W20+([Kr]4d(10)4 integral (8)) ion core.

Harvard Citation style: Schippers, S., Bernhardt, D., Müller, A., Krantz, C., Grieser, M., Repnow, R., et al. (2011) Dielectronic recombination of xenonlike tungsten ions, Physical review A, 83(1), Article 012711. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.012711

APA Citation style: Schippers, S., Bernhardt, D., Müller, A., Krantz, C., Grieser, M., Repnow, R., Wolf, A., Lestinsky, M., Hahn, M., Novotny, O., & Savin, D. (2011). Dielectronic recombination of xenonlike tungsten ions. Physical review A. 83(1), Article 012711. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.012711