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Relativistic Corrections To The Bethe Sum Rule, P.T. Leung, M. L. Rustgi, S. A. Long
Relativistic Corrections To The Bethe Sum Rule, P.T. Leung, M. L. Rustgi, S. A. Long
Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations
Relativistic corrections to order alpha² to the Bethe sum rule have been obtained for a one-electron system employing the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation. The results have wide applications in high-Z systems at large momentum transfers.
Shell Correction For The Stopping Power Of K Electrons, P.T. Leung, M. L. Rustgi, S. A. Long
Shell Correction For The Stopping Power Of K Electrons, P.T. Leung, M. L. Rustgi, S. A. Long
Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations
In view of the inapplicability of the asymptotic expressions for the stopping number available in the literature at high energies, an alternative approach is taken to compute the shell correction to the stopping number of K electrons. Anholt's formula (1979) for the K-shell ionization has been used to calculate the excitation function for longitudinal interaction and numerical integration over energy has been carried out to evaluate the shell correction. Comparison with other theoretical calculations is made. It is proposed that, with the inclusion of relativistic effects, an asymptotic expansion of the stopping number with a leading-term logarithmic in the energy …
An Approximate Variational Method For Improved Thermodynamics Of Molecular Fluids, M. S. Shaw, J. D. Johnson, John D. Ramshaw
An Approximate Variational Method For Improved Thermodynamics Of Molecular Fluids, M. S. Shaw, J. D. Johnson, John D. Ramshaw
Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations
For a certain class of thermodynamic perturbation theories, a generalization of the Gibbs-Bogoliubov inequality holds through second order of perturbation theory and for a subset of terms the inequality is true to infinite order. Using this approximate variational principle, a perturbation theory is chosen for which the Helmholtz free energy of the reference system is minimized under the constraint that the first order term is identically zero. We apply these ideas to the determination of effective spherical potentials that accurately reproduce the thermodynamics of nonspherical molecular potentials. For a diatomic-Lennard-Jones (DLJ) potential with l ∕σ = 0.793, the resulting spherical …
Fock-Tani Transformation And A First-Order Theory Of Charge Transfer, P. C. Ojha, M. D. Girardeau, J. D. Gilbert, Jack C. Straton
Fock-Tani Transformation And A First-Order Theory Of Charge Transfer, P. C. Ojha, M. D. Girardeau, J. D. Gilbert, Jack C. Straton
Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations
A unitary (Fock-Tani) transformation of the second-quantized Hamiltonian breaks the interaction into its component parts, e.g., elastic scattering, inelastic scattering, rearrangement interaction, etc. The interaction for a particular process is ‘‘weaker’’ than the overall interaction; this is reflected in certain orthogonality corrections which appear in a perturbation expansion of the T-matrix element. As a result, the internuclear potential makes a negligible contribution of order me/mp to the first-order amplitude for charge transfer. We find very good agreement with experimental and the best available theoretical results for the total cross section for the reaction p+H(1s)→H(1s)+p for …