Electron-impact excitation of thePlevels of helium: Theory and experiment
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 45 (3) , 1602-1624
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.45.1602
Abstract
New experimental electron-energy-loss data have been used to extract differential and integral cross sections for excitation of the 2 P level, and for the overlapping (3 P,3 D,3 D) levels of helium, at 30-, 50-, and 100-eV incident electron energies. First-order many-body theory (FOMBT) has been used to calculate the differential and integral cross sections for excitation of the P (n=2,...,6) levels of helium by electron impact, for incident electron energies from threshold to 500 eV. Detailed comparisons between these two new sets of data are made as well as comparisons with appropriate published experimental and theoretical results. A simple scaling relationship is derived from the FOMBT results for n=2,...,6 that provides differential and integral cross sections for all symmetry final levels of helium with n≥6.
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