Journal article

Publication year: 2007

Journal: Physical review A

Volume number: 75

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1050-2947

eISSN: 1094-1622

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012709

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 
We investigate the quantum interference between the resonant process of nuclear excitation by electron capture (NEEC) followed by the radiative decay of the excited nucleus, and radiative recombination (RR). In order to derive the interference cross section, a Feshbach projection operator formalism is used. The electromagnetic field is considered by means of multipole fields. The nucleus is described by a phenomenological collective model and by making use of experimental data. The Fano profile parameters as well as the interference cross section for electric and magnetic multipole transitions in various heavy ions are presented. We discuss the experimental possibility of discerning NEEC from the RR background.

Harvard Citation style: Palffy, A., Harman, Z. and Scheid, W. (2007) Quantum interference between nuclear excitation by electron capture and radiative recombination, Physical review A, 75(1), Article 012709. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012709

APA Citation style: Palffy, A., Harman, Z., & Scheid, W. (2007). Quantum interference between nuclear excitation by electron capture and radiative recombination. Physical review A. 75(1), Article 012709. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012709