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Phys. Rev. A 18, 2488–2492 (1978)

Electron-impact widths and shifts of neutral helium lines in a plasma

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J. M. Bassalo
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Pará, Pará, Brazil

M. Cattani
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 20516, São Paulo, Brazil

Received 7 December 1977; published in the issue dated December 1978

The quantum-mechanical formalism developed by Bassalo and Cattani is used to calculate the broadening and shift of many atomic lines of neutral helium in a plasma. We verify that this theory overestimates the linewidths and that it can be applied satisfactorily only to obtain the line shifts.

© 1978 The American Physical Society

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