Left-right asymmetry in superelastic collisions of polarized electrons with unpolarized laser-excited sodium atoms.

Autor: Nickich, V., Hegemann, T., Bartsch, M., Hanne, G.
Zdroj: Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms, Molecules & Clusters; 1990, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p261-269, 9p
Abstrakt: Polarized electrons have been scattered superelastically from laser-excited unpolarized sodium atoms (deexcitation of the 3 P or 3 P states). The left-right scattering asymmetry, which results from an interplay of the atomic charge cloud orientation, atomic fine-structure interaction and exchange processes, has been measured for energies between 6 and 20 eV and scattering angles ranging from 40 to 120°. Within the experimental uncertainty the Percival-Seaton hypothesis, which is the basis of current theoretical calculations for electron-sodium collisions, has been confirmed. However, the quantitative agreement between experimental and numerical results is satisfactory only for a 2-state close-coupling calculation of Moores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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