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Cross-sections for dissociative recombination and electron-impact vibrational excitation of the BF$^+_2$ molecular ion are computed using a theoretical approach that combines the normal modes approximation for the vibrational states of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 V. Kokoouline , M. Ayouz , J. Zs. Mezei , K. Hassouni , I. F. Schneider

Recent observation and analysis of kilonovae (KNe) spectra as a result of neutron star mergers require accurate and complete atomic structure and collisional data for interpretation. Ideally, the atomic datasets for elements predicted to be…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 M. McCann , C. P. Ballance , F. McNeill , S. A. Sim , C. A. Ramsbottom

There are major discrepancies between recent ICFT (Intermediate Coupling Frame Transformation) and DARC (Dirac Atomic R-matrix Code) calculations (Fern\'andez-Menchero et al. 2014, Astron. Astroph. 566 A104, Aggarwal et al. 2016 Mon. Not. R…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 L. Fernández-Menchero , O. Zatsarinny , K. Bartschat

We present a new approach for calculating electromagnetic excitation of nuclei as well as probabilities of emission and distributions of neutrons from decays of excited nuclear systems for ultrarelativistic, ultraperipheral heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Michal Ciemala , Wolfgang Schafer , Antoni Szczurek

Electron-impact vi->vf vibrational excitations cross sections, involving rovibrationally excited N_{2}(v_{i}, J) and NO(v_{i}, J) molecules (fixed J), are calculated for collisions occurring through the nitrogen resonant electronic state…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 V. Laporta , R. Celiberto , J. M. Wadehra

Aims. This work reports radiative transition rates and electron impact excitation collision strengths for levels of the 3s23p, 3s3p2, 3s24s, and 3s23d configurations of Siii. Methods. The radiative data were computed using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 M. A. Bautista , P. Quinet , P. Palmeri , N. R. Badnell , J. Dunn , N. Arav

A full set of vibrationally-resolved cross sections for electron impact excitation of NO(X2{\Pi}, v) molecules is calculated from ab initio molecular dynamics, in the framework of the local-complex-potential approach. Electron-vibration…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 V Laporta , L Vialetto , V Guerra

Aims: To calculate transition rates from ground and excited states in neutral oxygen atoms due to electron collisions for non-LTE modelling of oxygen in late-type stellar atmospheres, thus enabling reliable interpretation of oxygen lines in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. S. Barklem

We present benchmark integrated and differential cross-sections for electron collisions with H$_2$ using two different theoretical approaches, namely, the R-matrix and molecular convergent close-coupling (MCCC). This is similar to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 T. Meltzer , J. Tennyson , Z. Mašín , M. C. Zammit , L. H. Scarlett , D. V. Fursa , I. Bray

A comprehensive study of relativistic and resonance effects in electron impact excitation of (e+Fe XVII) is carried out using the BPRM method in the relativistic close coupling approximation. Two sets of eigenfunction expansions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Guo-Xin Chen , Anil K. Pradhan , W. Eissner

Energies for the lowest 56 levels, belonging to the 3s$^2$3p, 3s3p$^2$, 3p$^3$, 3s$^2$3d, 3s3p3d, 3s$^2$4$\ell$ and 3s$^2$5$\ell$ configurations of Si II, are calculated using the {\sc grasp} (General-purpose Relativistic Atomic Structure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 KM Aggarwal , FP Keenan

This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the cross sections for dissociative electron attachment and dissociative excitation processes in vibrationally excited CH radicals induced by electron impact. Resonant electron-CH…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 O. Abidi , I. Jendoubi , M. Telmini , R. Ghosh , K. Chakrabarti , V. Laporta

Emission and absorption features from C-like ions serve as temperature and density diagnostics of astrophysical plasmas. $R$-matrix electron-impact excitation data sets for C-like ions in the literature merely cover a few ions, and often…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Junjie Mao , N. R. Badnell , G. Del Zanna

Systematic R-matrix calculations of electron-impact excitation for ions of astrophysical interest have been performed since 2007 for many iso-electronic sequences as part of the UK Atomic Process for Astrophysical Plasma (APAP) network.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 G. Del Zanna , G. Liang , J. Mao , N. R. Badnell

The interplay of kinetic electron physics and atomic processes in ultrashort laser-plasma interactions provides a comprehensive understanding of electron energy distribution's impact on plasma properties. Notably, non-equilibrium electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 M. S. Cho , H. -K. Chung , M. E. Foord , S. B. Libby , B. I. Cho

A computer program is presented by which one may calculate the multiple electric dipole, electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole Coulomb excitation with relativistic heavy ions. The program applies to an arbitrary nucleus, specified by the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 C. A. Bertulani

The Coulomb logarithm often enters various plasma models and simulation methods for computing the transport and relaxation properties of plasmas. Traditionally, a classical pair collision picture was used to calculate the Coulomb logarithm…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 S. K. Kodanova , T. S. Ramazanov , M. K. Issanova

The experimental observables for the elastic reaction induced by protons on electrons are calculated in the Born approximation. Model independent expressions are derived for the differential cross section and polarization observables.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-06 G. I. Gakh , A. Dbeyssi , D. Marchand , E. Tomasi Gustafsson , V. V. Bytev

We use the recently introduced independent-atom-model pixel counting method to calculate proton-impact net ionization cross sections for a large class of biologically relevant systems including pyrimidines, purines, amino acids, and…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2019-10-02 Hans Jürgen Lüdde , Marko Horbatsch , Tom Kirchner

We calibrate the distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) for electron impact excitation processes empirically. Differential cross sections (DCS) for the excitation of the $2p^53s$, $2p^53p$,$2p^54s$, and $2p^54p$ configurations of Ne and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yaqiu Liang , Zhangjin Chen , D. H. Madison , C. D. Lin