Minima in generalized oscillator strengths for initially excited hydrogen-like atoms
Abstract
Generalized oscillator strengths for transitions from an initially excited state of a hydrogenic atom to final states (either discrete or continuum) have complicated structures, including minima and shoulders, as functions of the momentum transfer. Extensive calculations carried out in the present work have revealed certain systematics of these structures. Some implications of the minima to the energy dependence of the inner-shell ionization cross section of heavy atoms by proton impact are discussed.
- Publication:
-
Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0022-3700/9/13/006
- Bibcode:
- 1976JPhB....9.2173M
- Keywords:
-
- Atomic Energy Levels;
- Electron Transitions;
- Hydrogen Atoms;
- Ionization Cross Sections;
- Molecular Oscillations;
- Electron States;
- Inelastic Scattering;
- Minima;
- Momentum Transfer;
- Proton Impact;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics