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Electron Impact Excitation Cross Section Measurement for n = 3 to n = 2 Line Emission in Fe 17+ to Fe 23+

2006; IOP Publishing; Volume: 646; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/504708

ISSN

1538-4357

Autores

H. Chen, Minfeng Gu, P. Beiersdörfer, K. R. Boyce, G. V. Brown, S. M. Kahn, Richard L. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne, F. S. Porter, J. H. Scofield,

Tópico(s)

Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques

Resumo

We report the measurement of electron impact excitation cross sections for the strong iron L-shell 3 → 2 lines of Fe XVIII through Fe XXIV at the EBIT-I electron beam ion trap using a crystal spectrometer and a 6 × 6 pixel array microcalorimeter. The cross sections were determined by direct normalization to the well established theoretical cross section of radiative electron capture through a sophisticated model analysis, which results in the excitation cross section for 48 lines at multiple electron energies. We also studied the electron-density-dependent nature of the emission lines, which is demonstrated by the effective excitation cross section of the 3d → 2p transition in Fe XXI.

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