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Time Resolved X-Ray Spectroscopy Of Highly Charged Ar, Nd, And Pr, Timothy Burke
Time Resolved X-Ray Spectroscopy Of Highly Charged Ar, Nd, And Pr, Timothy Burke
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Highly Charged Ions (HCIs) may be considered ideal mini-laboratory in which one can study the physics of matter and light in an environment of high internal electric field that can not be recreated with standard lab equipment. The remaining electron(s) exist in the extremely large electric field of the nucleus and therefore measurements of electronic transitions in these systems provide stringent tests of our understanding of physics in extreme conditions. Quantum electrodynamics (QED) despite being a powerful theory exhibits large discrepancies for systems under extreme conditions. The work here investigates the atomic properties within non-Maxwellian plasmas. The HCI plasmas studied …
Experimental Analyses Of Emission Lines In The Uv/Vis/Nir Range For Astrophysically-Important Elements: From The Iron Group To R-Process Elements, Brynna Neff
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Analysis of astrophysical phenomena requires an understanding of the electronic
structure and transition probabilities of the elements present in that environment,
yet there are still many charge states of heavy elements whose electronic
structures and spectroscopic properties are not yet well understood. To address this,
we investigated the spectroscopic properties of three different elements through an
analysis of spectra collected from three different experimental apparatuses.
In order to better understand the spectroscopic properties of Ni I and II, we
analyzed spectra collected from the Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH) apparatus at
Auburn University. In this experiment, a nickel sample was inserted …