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Phys. Rev. A 77, 042713 (2008) [5 pages]

Occupation of fine-structure states in electron capture and transport

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Marek Seliger1,2,*, Carlos O. Reinhold3,4, Tatsuya Minami3,5, David R. Schultz3, Shuhei Yoshida2, Joachim Burgdörfer2,4, Emily Lamour6, Jean-Pierre Rozet6, and Dominique Vernhet6
1Institute for Physics, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria, EU
2Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, EU
3Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6372, USA
4Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA
5Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA
6Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, CNRS UMR 75-88, Université Paris 6, 75015 Paris, France, EU

Received 6 December 2007; published 16 April 2008

We study the population of the fine-structure states in excited-state manifolds of hydrogenic Ar17+ ions resulting from charge transfer in collisions of 13.6 MeV/amu Ar18+ ions with thin carbon foils or CH4 and N2 gases. Experimental information on excited states populations is determined by x-ray spectroscopy of individual fine-structure components of the Lyman series allowing for sensitive probes of relativistic effects during the primary charge transfer and the subsequent transport. We show that the ratio of the populations of the 2p1/2 and 2p3/2 states provides clear evidence for spin dependent relativistic effects at moderately relativistic speeds.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.042713
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.042713
PACS:
34.50.Fa, 34.10.+x, 34.70.+e, 34.80.Nz

*marek.seliger@uni-graz.at

 
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