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Electron Self-Energy For Higher Excited S Levels, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr Jun 2004

Electron Self-Energy For Higher Excited S Levels, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

A nonperturbative numerical evaluation of the one-photon electron self-energy for the 3S and 4S states with charge numbers Z=1 to 5 is described. The numerical results are in agreement with known terms in the expansion of the self-energy in powers of Zα.


Protonium Formation In The P̅-H Collision At Low Energies By A Diabatic Approach, M. Hesse, Anh-Thu Le, C. D. Lin May 2004

Protonium Formation In The P̅-H Collision At Low Energies By A Diabatic Approach, M. Hesse, Anh-Thu Le, C. D. Lin

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We present a diabatization technique in combination with the recently developed hyperspherical close coupling (HSCC) method. In contrast to the strict diabatization, our simple diabatization procedure transforms only sharp avoided crossings in the adiabatic hyperspherical potential curves into real crossings. With this approach, the weak collision channels can be removed from the close-coupling calculations. This method is used to study the antiproton-hydrogen collision at low energies. In the case of a scaled down (anti)proton mass, we show that a 10-channel calculation is enough to obtain converged cross sections at low energies. The results also indicate that protonium formation occurs mostly …


Self-Energy Correction To The Two-Photon Decay Width In Hydrogenlike Atoms, Ulrich D. Jentschura May 2004

Self-Energy Correction To The Two-Photon Decay Width In Hydrogenlike Atoms, Ulrich D. Jentschura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We investigate the guage invariance of the leading logarithmic radiative correction to the two-photon decay width in hydrogenlike atoms, was investigated. The effective treatment of the correction using a Lamb-shift led to the equivalent results in both the length and velocity gages. The relevant radiative corrections were found to be related to the energies that entered into the propagator denominators, to the Hamiltonian, to the wave functions, and to the energy conservation condition, that holds between two photons. The results show that the dominant radiative correction to the 2S two-photon decay width is about -2.020 536(α/π)(Zα)2 1n[(Zα)-2] …


Charge Transfer In Slow Collisions Of C⁴⁺ With H Below 1 Kev/Amu, Chen-Nan Liu, Anh-Thu Le, C. D. Lin Dec 2003

Charge Transfer In Slow Collisions Of C⁴⁺ With H Below 1 Kev/Amu, Chen-Nan Liu, Anh-Thu Le, C. D. Lin

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We reexamined charge-transfer cross sections for C⁴⁺ + H collisions for energies from 1 meV/amu to 1 keV/amu using the recently developed hyperspherical close-coupling method. Our results agree with several previous theoretical calculations using molecular-orbital expansion. However, these converged theoretical predictions do not agree with total cross sections from the merged-beam experiments.


Perturbation Approach To The Self-Energy Of Non-S Hydrogenic States, Eric Olivier Le Bigot, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr, Paul Indelicato, Gerhard Soff Oct 2003

Perturbation Approach To The Self-Energy Of Non-S Hydrogenic States, Eric Olivier Le Bigot, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr, Paul Indelicato, Gerhard Soff

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We present results on the self-energy correction to the energy levels of hydrogen and hydrogenlike ions. The self energy represents the largest QED correction to the relativistic (Dirac-Coulomb) energy of a bound electron. We focus on the perturbation expansion of the self energy of non-S states, and provide estimates of the so-called A60 perturbative coefficient, which can be considered as a relativistic Bethe logarithm. Precise values of A60 are given for many P, D, F and G states, while estimates are given for other electronic states. These results can be used in high-precision spectroscopy experiments in hydrogen and …


Perturbative And Nonperturbative Calculations Of Electron-Hydrogen Ionization, Stephenie J. Jones, Don H. Madison, Mark D. Baertschy Jan 2003

Perturbative And Nonperturbative Calculations Of Electron-Hydrogen Ionization, Stephenie J. Jones, Don H. Madison, Mark D. Baertschy

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We compare calculations of the fully differential cross section for ionization of atomic hydrogen by electron impact using two different theories-the perturbative CDW-EIS (continuum distorted wave with eikonal initial state) approximation and the nonperturbative ECS (exterior complex scaling) method. For this comparison, we chose an impact energy of 54.4 eV, since this is near the lowest energy that our perturbative approach would be applicable and near the highest energy that can be tackled by the ECS method with our present computational resources. For the case of equal-energy outgoing electrons investigated here, the two theories predict nearly identical results except that …


Double-Logarithmic Two-Loop Self-Energy Corrections To The Lamb Shift, Ulrich D. Jentschura, I. Nandori Aug 2002

Double-Logarithmic Two-Loop Self-Energy Corrections To The Lamb Shift, Ulrich D. Jentschura, I. Nandori

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Self-energy corrections involving logarithms of the parameter Z α can often be derived within a simplified approach, avoiding calculational difficulties typical of the problematic nonlogarithmic corrections (as customary in bound-state quantum electrodynamics, we denote by Z the nuclear charge number, and by α the fine-structure constant). For some logarithmic corrections, it is sufficient to consider internal properties of the electron characterized by form factors. We provide a detailed derivation of related self-energy “potentials” that give rise to the logarithmic corrections; these potentials are local in coordinate space. We focus on the double-logarithmic two-loop coefficient B62 for P states and …


Coincident Fragment Detection In Strong Field Photoionization And Dissociation Of H₂, Horst Rottke, Christoph Trump, M. Wittmann, Georg Korn, Wolfgang Sandner, Robert Moshammer, Alexander Dorn, Claus Dieter Schroter, Daniel Fischer, Jose R. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, Paul B. Neumayer, J. Deipenwisch, C. Hohr, Bernold Feuerstein, Joachim Hermann Ullrich Jul 2002

Coincident Fragment Detection In Strong Field Photoionization And Dissociation Of H₂, Horst Rottke, Christoph Trump, M. Wittmann, Georg Korn, Wolfgang Sandner, Robert Moshammer, Alexander Dorn, Claus Dieter Schroter, Daniel Fischer, Jose R. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, Paul B. Neumayer, J. Deipenwisch, C. Hohr, Bernold Feuerstein, Joachim Hermann Ullrich

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

An investigation of the correlated electronic and nuclear motion in fragmentation of H2 in 4 x 1014 W/cm2, fs laser pulses at 795 nm was presented using the electron-ion momentum spectroscopy. The channel selective electron energy distribution indicated assumption of a new H2 ionization mechanism to interpret the differences found in the fragmentation channels. The results showed that the momentum distribution of H+ ions in the dissociation channels H(1s) + H+ + e- and 2H+ + 2e- was independent of the kinetic energy of photoelectrons.


A Mössbauer Spectral Study Of The Magnetic Properties Of Ho₂Fe₁₇ And Ho₂Fe₁₇D₃.₈, Gary J. Long, Olivier Isnard, Fernande Grandjean Feb 2002

A Mössbauer Spectral Study Of The Magnetic Properties Of Ho₂Fe₁₇ And Ho₂Fe₁₇D₃.₈, Gary J. Long, Olivier Isnard, Fernande Grandjean

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The Mössbauer spectra of Ho2Fe17 and Ho2Fe17D3.8 have been measured between 4.2 and 295 K and analyzed with a model which takes into account both the disordered nonstoichiometric hexagonal Th2Ni17-like structure and the basal orientation of the iron magnetic moments. The isomer shifts of the five crystallographically inequivalent iron sites in both Ho2Fe17 and Ho2Fe17D3.8 follow the sequence of Wigner-Seitz cell volumes and their temperature dependence follows the typical second-order Doppler shift. An increase in the weighted average isomer shift …


Resummation Of The Divergent Perturbation Series For A Hydrogen Atom In An Electric Field, Ulrich D. Jentschura Jul 2001

Resummation Of The Divergent Perturbation Series For A Hydrogen Atom In An Electric Field, Ulrich D. Jentschura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We consider the resummation of the perturbation series describing the energy displacement of a hydrogenic bound state in an electric field (known as the Stark effect or the LoSurdo-Stark effect), which constitutes a divergent formal power series in the electric-field strength. The perturbation series exhibits a rich singularity structure in the Borel plane. Resummation methods are presented that appear to lead to consistent results even in problematic cases where isolated singularities or branch cuts are present on the positive and negative real axis in the Borel plane. Two resummation prescriptions are compared: (i) a variant of the Borel-Pad'e resummation method, …


Electron Self-Energy For The K And L Shells At Low Nuclear Charge, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr, Gerhard Soff Apr 2001

Electron Self-Energy For The K And L Shells At Low Nuclear Charge, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr, Gerhard Soff

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

A nonperturbative numerical evaluation of the one-photon electron self-energy for the K- and L-shell states of hydrogenlike ions with nuclear charge numbers Z =1 to 5 is described. Our calculation for the 1S1/2 state has a numerical uncertainty of 0.8 Hz in atomic hydrogen, and for the L-shell states (2S1/2 , 2P1/2 , and 2P3/2) the numerical uncertainty is 1.0 Hz. The method of evaluation for the ground state and for the excited states is described in detail. The numerical results are compared to results based on known terms in the expansion of the self-energy …


Fully Differential Cusp Electron Production Cross Sections For 75-Kev H₂⁺ + He Collisions, L. An, Kh Khayvat, Michael Schulz Feb 2001

Fully Differential Cusp Electron Production Cross Sections For 75-Kev H₂⁺ + He Collisions, L. An, Kh Khayvat, Michael Schulz

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

A kinematically complete experiment on single ionization for 75-keV H2+ + H e collisions was performed by measuring the fully momentum analyzed projectiles and recoil ions in coincidence. The electron momentum was deduced from momentum conservation. Clear signatures of the postcollision interaction between the outgoing projectiles and the electrons were observed in the momentum spectra of all collision products simultaneously.


Structural, Magnetic, And Mössbauer Spectral Study Of Er₂Fe₁₇ And Its Hydrides, Fernande Grandjean, Olivier Isnard, Dimitri Hautot, Gary J. Long Jan 2001

Structural, Magnetic, And Mössbauer Spectral Study Of Er₂Fe₁₇ And Its Hydrides, Fernande Grandjean, Olivier Isnard, Dimitri Hautot, Gary J. Long

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The structural and magnetic properties of the Er2Fe17Hx compounds, where x is 0, 1, 2, 3, and 3.8, have been investigated by means of powder x-ray diffraction, thermal and ac magnetic susceptibility measurements, and iron-57 Mössbauer spectroscopy. The Er2Fe17Hx compounds crystallize in the hexagonal P63/mmc space group with the Th2Ni17-like structure, a structure which has both an iron-rich stoichiometry and disorder of the erbium and iron-iron 4f-4f dumbbell sites. The increase in the lattice parameters, the magnetic ordering temperature, the saturation magnetization, and the …


Ionization Of Hydrogen Atoms By Fast Electrons, Sindu P. Jones, Don H. Madison Oct 2000

Ionization Of Hydrogen Atoms By Fast Electrons, Sindu P. Jones, Don H. Madison

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We study ionization of atomic hydrogen by fast electrons using asymptotically correct two-center wave functions to describe the scattering system both initially and finally. For the final state, we employ the well-known product wave function of Redmond, which treats all three two-body Coulomb interactions exactly, albeit independently. This "3C" wave function is the leading term of the exact scattering wave function, regardless of how slow the three particles are, if any two particles have large relative separation [Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, Phys. Rev. A 56, 521 (1997)]. Here we extend the analysis of Qiu et al. [Phys. Rev. A …


Second Law Analysis Of Active Magnetic Regenerative Hydrogen Liquefiers, L. Zhang, S. A. Sherif, T. N. Veziroglu, John W. Sheffield Jan 1993

Second Law Analysis Of Active Magnetic Regenerative Hydrogen Liquefiers, L. Zhang, S. A. Sherif, T. N. Veziroglu, John W. Sheffield

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Recent published work in the area of magnetic refrigeration reports on its potential for greater efficiency and high reliability. This paper presents an exergy analysis of a three-stage active magnetic regenerative (AMR) hydrogen liquefier which cools a hydrogen gas stream at 77 K and 1 atm to hydrogen liquid at 20 K. Ortho - para conversion of hydrogen is accomplished in a heat exchanger employing a 10 atm helium fluid that cycles in the refrigerator. The performance of the system is described in terms of the cooling capacity and exergy losses as functions of the magnetic material type, magnetic bed …