Journal article

Publication year: 2004

Journal: Physical review A

Volume number: 70

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 1050-2947

eISSN: 1094-1622

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.70.052714

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 
Theoretical calculations and experimental crossed-beam measurements are compared for electron-impact single ionization of Biq+ for q=1-10. The configuration-average distorted-wave calculations include both direct ionization and indirect excitation-autoionization contributions. For Bi2+ it is necessary to account for levels within an excited configuration that straddle the ionization threshold. This was included via level-resolved atomic structure calculations, from which statistical partitions of the configuration-averaged cross sections could then be made. Evidence is found for ionization contributions from an excited configuration in Bi3+ and Bi5+. Good agreement is found between theory and experiment for all the ionization stages of Bi studied.

Harvard Citation style: Loch, S., Pindzola, M., Badnell, N., Scheuermann, F., Kramer, K., Huber, K., et al. (2004) Electron-impact ionization of Bi^q+ for q=1-10 -: art. no. 052714, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 70(5), Article 052714. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.70.052714

APA Citation style: Loch, S., Pindzola, M., Badnell, N., Scheuermann, F., Kramer, K., Huber, K., & Salzborn, E. (2004). Electron-impact ionization of Bi^q+ for q=1-10 -: art. no. 052714. PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 70(5), Article 052714. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.70.052714