R-MATRIX WITH PSEUDO-STATES CALCULATION FOR ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH NEUTRAL BERYLLIUM

Citation
K. Bartschat et al., R-MATRIX WITH PSEUDO-STATES CALCULATION FOR ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH NEUTRAL BERYLLIUM, Journal of physics. B, Atomic molecular and optical physics, 30(24), 1997, pp. 5915-5924
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical",Optics
ISSN journal
09534075
Volume
30
Issue
24
Year of publication
1997
Pages
5915 - 5924
Database
ISI
SICI code
0953-4075(1997)30:24<5915:RWPCFE>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We have extended and further improved our previous R-matrix with pseud o-states (RMPS) calculation for electron collisions with beryllium (19 96 J. Phys. B: At. Mel. Opt. Phys. L769-72). Results for transitions f rom the (2s(2))S-1 ground state to the lowest 11 target states with pr incipal quantum number n = 2, 3 are presented for incident energies fr om threshold to 100 eV. In the crucial 'intermediate energy range' of 10-100 eV, our results are in good agreement with those obtained in th e convergent close-coupling (CCC) calculation of Fursa and Bray, where as significant discrepancies are found with predictions from simpler m odels. Consequently, a combination of RMPS and CCC predictions in this region, supplemented by our RMPS results in the low-energy resonance regime and further CCC results above 100 eV incident energy are believ ed to represent the most accurate currently available data for this co llision problem.