Journal article

Publication year: 2003

Pages: 3371-3381

Journal: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volume number: 36

Issue number: 16

ISSN: 0953-4075

eISSN: 1361-6455

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/36/16/301

Publisher: IOP Publishing

Abstract: 
We have investigated L-shell photoionization (PI) of IS ground-state and 3 p, metastable states of the Be-like ion, B+, in the photon energy range 22.4-31.3 eV, at an experimental energy resolution of 25 meV Absolute PI cross sections have been measured using a photon-ion merged-beams arrangement at the Advanced Light Source. Detailed calculations using the semi-relativistic Breit-Pauli R-matrix approach suggest a fraction of 29% of metastable ions in the primary beam of the experiment. Excellent agreement is observed between the theoretical predictions and the experimental high-resolution PI cross sections. The present results are compared with earlier experimental and theoretical work. The cross section for PI of B+ ground-state ions can be very well described by an analytic formula derived from quantum defect theory.

Harvard Citation style: Schippers, S., Müller, A., McLaughlin, B., Aguilar, A., Cisneros, C., Emmons, E., et al. (2003) Photoionization studies of the B+ valence shell: experiment and theory, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 36(16), Article PII S0953-4075(03)63256-6. pp. 3371-3381. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/36/16/301

APA Citation style: Schippers, S., Müller, A., McLaughlin, B., Aguilar, A., Cisneros, C., Emmons, E., Gharaibeh, M., & Phaneuf, R. (2003). Photoionization studies of the B+ valence shell: experiment and theory. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 36(16), Article PII S0953-4075(03)63256-6, 3371-3381. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/36/16/301