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)
Resonance effects on the two-photon emission from hydrogenic ions
- Citation:
- Amaro, P., J. P. Santos, F. Parente, A. Surzhykov, and P. Indelicato. "Resonance effects on the two-photon emission from hydrogenic ions." Physical Review A 79 (2009): 062504.
Abstract:
A theoretical study of the all two-photon transitions from initial bound states with ni=2,3 in hydrogenic ions is presented. High-precision values of relativistic decay rates for ions with nuclear charge in the range 1<=Z<=92 are obtained through the use of finite basis sets for the Dirac equation constructed from B splines. We also report the spectral (energy) distributions of several resonant transitions, which exhibit interesting structures, such as zeros in the emission spectrum, indicating that two-photon emission is strongly suppressed at certain frequencies. We compare two different approaches (the line profile approach and the QED approach based on the analysis of the relativistic two-loop self-energy) to regularize the resonant contribution to the decay rate. Predictions for the pure two-photon contributions obtained in these approaches are found to be in good numerical agreement.
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