José Paulo Santos
Professor Catedrático do Departamento de Física da FCT/UNL
DF - FCT NOVA, Quinta da Torre, 2829 -516 MONTE DA CAPARICA , PORTUGAL (email)
Production and decay of sulfur excited species in an electron-cyclotron-resonance ion-source plasma
- Citation:
- Martins, M. C., J. P. Marques, A. M. Costa, J. P. Santos, F. Parente, S. Schlesser, Le E. - O. Bigot, and P. Indelicato. "Production and decay of sulfur excited species in an electron-cyclotron-resonance ion-source plasma." Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics) 80 (2009): 032501.
Abstract:
The most important processes for the creation of S12+ to S14+ ions excited states from the ground configurations of S9+ to S14+ ions in an electron cyclotron resonance ion source, leading to the emission of K x-ray lines, are studied. Theoretical values for inner-shell excitation and ionization cross sections, including double-KL and triple-KLL ionizations, transition probabilities and energies for the de-excitation processes, are calculated in the framework of the multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method. With reasonable assumptions about the electron energy distribution, a theoretical Kalpha x-ray spectrum is obtained, which is compared to recent experimental data.