Journal article

Publication year: 2006

Journal: Physical review A

Volume number: 73

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1050-2947

eISSN: 1094-1622

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.012715

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 
We investigate the resonant process of nuclear excitation by electron capture (NEEC), in which a continuum electron is captured into a bound state of an ion with the simultaneous excitation of the nucleus. In order to derive the cross section a Feshbach projection operator formalism is introduced. Nuclear states and transitions are described by a nuclear collective model and making use of experimental data. Transition rates and total cross sections for NEEC followed by the radiative decay of the excited nucleus are calculated for various heavy-ion collision systems.

Harvard Citation style: Pálffy, A., Scheid, W. and Harman, Z. (2006) Theory of nuclear excitation by electron capture for heavy ions -: art. no. 012715, Physical review A, 73(1), Article 012715. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.012715

APA Citation style: Pálffy, A., Scheid, W., & Harman, Z. (2006). Theory of nuclear excitation by electron capture for heavy ions -: art. no. 012715. Physical review A. 73(1), Article 012715. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.012715