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We describe the computer codes, developed at Vilnius University, for the calculation of electron-impact excitation cross sections, collision strengths, and excitation rates in the plane-wave Born approximation. These codes utilize the…
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…
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…
We optically probe the spectrum of ground and excited state transitions of an individual, electrically tunable self-assembled quantum dot molecule. Photocurrent absorption measurements show that the spatially direct neutral exciton…
This work presents the development of a protocol for the measurement of collisional deexcitation rate constants of N$_2$(C$^3\Pi_u$ , $\nu$ = 0-4) States by O$_2$, N$_2$, H$_2$, CO$_2$ and CH$_4$. Excited nitrogen is produced using…
A potential energy surface for the lowest quartet electronic state of lithium trimer is developed and used to study spin-polarized Li + Li_2 collisions at ultralow kinetic energies. The potential energy surface allows barrierless atom…
Modeling environments that are not in local thermal equilibrium, such as protoplanetary disks or planetary atmospheres, with molecular spectroscopic data from space telescopes requires knowledge of the rate coefficients of rovibrationally…
Ultra-cold RbCs molecules in high-lying vibrational levels of the a$^3\Sigma^+$ ground electronic state are confined in an optical trap. Inelastic collision rates of these molecules with both Rb and Cs atoms are determined for individual…
Time-dependent close-coupling calculations of the ionization and excitation cross section for antiproton collisions with molecular hydrogen ions are performed in an impact-energy range from 0.5 keV to 10 MeV. The Born-Oppenheimer and…
Results for quantum mechanical calculations of the integral cross sections and corresponding thermal rate coefficients for para-/ortho-H2+HD collisions are presented. Because of significant astrophysical interest in regard to the cooling of…
We consider the cross correlations of low-lying energy levels of nuclei belonging to small intervals of the excitation-energy ratio R_{4/2} of the first 4^+ to 2^+ states. The mean value of the cross-correlation coefficients, plotted as a…
A model of the collisional kinetics of energetic hydrogen atoms, molecules, and ions in pure H$_2$ discharges is used to predict H$_\alpha$ emission profiles and spatial distributions of emission from the cathode regions of low-pressure,…
Inelastic low-energy (0--1 eV) collisions of electrons with HeH$^+$ cations are treated theoretically, with a focus on the rovibrational excitation and dissociative recombination (DR) channels. In an application of {\it ab initio}…
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…
The charge transfer reaction Ar+ + N2 --> Ar + N2+ has been investigated in a crossed beam experiment in combination with three-dimensional velocity map imaging. Angular differential state-to-state cross sections were determined as a…
Bottomonium S-wave states were studied using lattice NRQCD. Masses of ground and excited states were calculated using multiexponential fitting to a set of correlation functions constructed using both local and wavefunction-smeared…
The dynamics of the reaction H + OH $\to$ O (3P) + H2 have been studied in a series of quasi-classical trajectory (QCT) calculations and transition state theory (TST) methods using high quality 3A' and 3A'' potential energy surfaces (PESs).…
Calculations of the lowest valence {\pi}* as well as the 3s and higher energy 3p{\sigma} Rydberg excited states of the CO2 molecule are carried out using density functionals with variational optimization of the orbitals, an approach…
Collisional excitation rate coefficients play an important role in the dynamics of energy transfer in the interstellar medium. In particular, accurate rotational excitation rates are needed to interpret microwave and infrared observations…
Cross sections and rate coefficients for rovibronic excitation of the CH$^+$ ion by electron impact and dissociative recombination of CH$^+$ with electrons are evaluated using a theoretical approach combining an R-matrix method and…