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Missouri University of Science and Technology

2008

Coulomb Interactions

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Alignment Of Heavy Few-Electron Ions Following Excitation By Relativistic Coulomb Collisions, Andrey S. Surzhykov, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Th H. Stohlker, Alexandre Gumberidze, Stephan Fritzsche Apr 2008

Alignment Of Heavy Few-Electron Ions Following Excitation By Relativistic Coulomb Collisions, Andrey S. Surzhykov, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Th H. Stohlker, Alexandre Gumberidze, Stephan Fritzsche

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The Coulomb excitation of highly charged few-electron ions in relativistic collisions with protons and low- Z atoms is studied within the framework of first-order perturbation theory and the multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method. Apart from the computation of the total excitation cross sections, a detailed theoretical analysis has been performed for the magnetic sublevel population of the residual ions. To describe this population, general expressions are derived for the alignment parameters of the excited states of the ions, taking into account the relativistic and many-electron effects. Calculations are performed for the K→L and K→M excitation of helium- and lithiumlike uranium ions and …


Electron Self-Energy In The Presence Of A Magnetic Field: Hyperfine Splitting And G Factor, Vladimir A. Yerokhin, Ulrich D. Jentschura Apr 2008

Electron Self-Energy In The Presence Of A Magnetic Field: Hyperfine Splitting And G Factor, Vladimir A. Yerokhin, Ulrich D. Jentschura

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A high-precision numerical calculation is reported for the self-energy correction to the hyperfine splitting and to the bound-electron g factor in hydrogenlike ions with low nuclear charge numbers. The binding nuclear Coulomb field is treated to all orders, and the nonperturbative remainder beyond the known Zα-expansion coefficients is determined. For the 3He+ ion, the nonperturbative remainder yields a contribution of -450Hz to the normalized difference of the 1S and 2S hyperfine-structure intervals, to be compared with the experimental uncertainty of 71 Hz and with the theoretical error of 50 Hz due to other contributions. In the case of …