Optical potentials in ion-atom collisions. II. Effective one-electron systems

Abstract
For pt. I, see ibid., vol.21, pp.4143-56, (1988). The optical models allows an extension of truncated coupled-channel calculations to energies for which ionisation channels become important. Collisions between ground-state and metastable (2s) hydrogen atoms and rare gases (helium, neon, argon) are investigated on the basis of a one-centre optical potential. The authors present results for direct excitation of hydrogen as well as for electron loss from hydrogen.
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