Ss. Churilov et al., Inverse populations of multicharged ion levels in a Z-pinch plasma as a result of interaction of plasma beams with neutral or low-ionized gas targets, CONTR PLASM, 40(1-2), 2000, pp. 167-172
A systematic investigation of spectra of multiply ionized carbon, nitrogen,
and oxygen from a Z-pinch plasma interacting with a cold gas is presented.
A possibility of the charge-exchange process between high- and low-charged
(or neutral) ions being responsible for the observed inversion of level po
pulations in H-, He- and Li-like ions is discussed.