Low-energy electron collisions with quasi-two electron atoms
Abstract
We have recently investigated elastic electron scattering from quasi-two electron targets such as Mg, Zn, and Hg. Accurate total and momentum-transfer cross sections for these processes are of interest both for modelling transport processes in various lighting applications [1] and for the fundamental understanding of collision processes in magneto-optical traps and Bose-Einstein condensates [2]. To our big surprise, we found that a convergent description of these collisions within the close-coupling formalism is by no means trivial, since the theoretical results for the scattering lengths and the low-energy p-wave shape resonances, studied experimentally a long time ago [3], depend in a very sensitive way on the details of the numerical model. [1] G.G. Lister, in Low Temperature Plasma Physics (eds. R. Hippler, S. Pfau, M. Schmidt and K.H. Schoenbach), Wiley (New York, 2002) [2] K. Bartschat and H.R. Sadeghpour, J. Phys. B. 36 (2003) L9 [3] P.D. Burrow, J.A. Michejda and J. Comer, J. Phys. B. 9 (1976) 3225
- Publication:
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APS Annual Gaseous Electronics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003APS..GECQR1005B