R-matrix with pseudo-states calculation for electron collisions with neutral beryllium
- 28 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Vol. 30 (24) , 5915-5924
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/30/24/024
Abstract
We have extended and further improved our previous R-matrix with pseudo-states (RMPS) calculation for electron collisions with beryllium (1996 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. L769 - 72). Results for transitions from the ground state to the lowest 11 target states with principal quantum number n = 2,3 are presented for incident energies from threshold to 100 eV. In the crucial `intermediate energy range' of 10 - 100 eV, our results are in good agreement with those obtained in the convergent close-coupling (CCC) calculation of Fursa and Bray, whereas significant discrepancies are found with predictions from simpler models. Consequently, a combination of RMPS and CCC predictions in this region, supplemented by our RMPS results in the low-energy resonance regime and further CCC results above 100 eV incident energy are believed to represent the most accurate currently available data for this collision problem.Keywords
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