Abstract
The principle of microscopic time-reversal of physical processes, detailed balance, is widely used and depended upon in the theoretical community as a connection between the inverse processes of photorecombination (PR) and photoionization (PI). This paper reports on a novel use of detailed balance and the comparison of experimental results obtained by two very distinct techniques to determine both the metastable fraction of an ion beam and partial Sc3+ PR cross sections and partial Sc2+ PI cross sections for the ground state and for two metastable states. The Sc2+ to Sc3+ system presents a unique opportunity to obtain comprehensive state-selective information by combining results from PR and PI experiments.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 297-300 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms |
Volume | 205 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2003 |
Event | HCI - 2001 - Caen, France Duration: Sep 1 2002 → Sep 6 2002 |
Funding
We gratefully acknowledge financial support through the NATO Collaborative Research Grants CRG-950911 (AM, SS), CLG-976362 (SR) and from the Division of Chemical Sciences, Biosciences and Geosciences of the US Department of Energy under contract DE-FG03-00ER14787 (AA, AMC, MFG, RAP). GHD was supported in part by US DOE contract DE-A102-95ER54293 and MEB was supported in part by the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences of the US DOE under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC.
Keywords
- Detailed balance
- Heavy-ion storage ring
- Merged beams
- Photoionization
- Photorecombination
- Synchrotron radiation