Measurement of the field-induced dielectronic recombination rate enhancement of N 4+ ions differential in the Rydberg quantum number n

Autor: K.B. MacAdam, Håkan Danared, Stefan Schippers, W. Shi, S. Böhm, N Eklöw, Gordon H. Dunn, R. Schuch, N. Djurić, M. Fogel, Alfred Müller
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 205:370-373
ISSN: 0168-583X
DOI: 10.1016/s0168-583x(03)00558-5
Popis: Field-enhanced dielectronic recombination (DR) cross-sections differential in the main quantum number n have been measured for N4+ ions. The n-differential data were obtained at the heavy ion storage ring CRYRING by increasing the ion energy in two steps from 3 to 5 MeV/u and from 5 to 7.5 MeV/u. The accompanying increase of the magnetic field in the storage – ring dipole magnets leads to a decrease of the cutoff quantum number nc associated with the field ionization of intermediate N3+(1s22p nl) states. By comparing measurements at two different ion energies the enhancement of DR due to electromagnetic fields is derived for the narrow bandwidths of Rydberg states n≈17–21 and 19–24. The applied electric fields ranged from 0 to 300 V/cm. The observed enhancement was up to a factor of 1.9 for the bandwidth n≈17–21 and up to 2.3 for the bandwidth n≈19–24, respectively.
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