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Relativistic calculations of the x-ray emission following the Xe-Bi collision
We study the x-ray emission following the collision of a Bi ion with
a neutral Xe atom at the projectile energy 70 MeV/u. The collisional and
post-collisional processes are treated separately. The probabilities of various
many-electron processes at the collision are calculated within a relativistic
independent electron model using the coupled-channel approach with atomic-like
Dirac-Fock-Sturm orbitals. The analysis of the post-collisional processes
resulting in the x-ray emission is based on the fluorescence yields, the
radiation and Auger decay rates, and allows to derive intensities of the x-ray
emission and compare them with experimental data. A reasonable agreement
between the theoretical results and the recent experimental data is observed.
The role of the relativistic effects is investigated.Comment: 11 figures, 2 table
Characterization of a Si(Li) Compton polarimeter for the hard x-ray regime, using synchrotron radiation.
Electron gas polarization effect induced by heavy H-like ions of moderate velocities channeled in a silicon crystal
We report on the observation of a strong perturbation of the electron gas
induced by 20 MeV/u U ions and 13 MeV/u Pb ions channeled in
silicon crystals. This collective response (wake effect) in-duces a shift of
the continuum energy level by more than 100 eV, which is observed by means of
Radiative Electron Capture into the K and L-shells of the projectiles. We also
observe an increase of the REC probability by 20-50% relative to the
probability in a non-perturbed electron gas. The energy shift is in agreement
with calculations using the linear response theory, whereas the local electron
density enhancement is much smaller than predicted by the same model. This
shows that, for the small values of the adiabaticity parameter achieved in our
experiments, the density fluctuations are not strongly localized at the
vicinity of the heavy ions
Magnetic Sublevel Population and Alignment for the Excitation of H- and He-like Uranium in Relativistic Collisions
We have measured the alignment of the L-shell magnetic-substates following
the K-shell excitation of hydrogen- and helium-like uranium in relativistic
collisions with a low-Z gaseous target. Within this experiment the population
distribution for the L-shell magnetic sublevels has been obtained via an
angular differential study of the decay photons associated with the subsequent
de-excitation process. The results show a very distinctive behavior for the H-
and He-like heavy systems. In particular for excitation of
He-like uranium, a considerable alignment of the L-shell levels was observed. A
comparison of our experimental findings with recent rigorous relativistic
predictions provides a good qualitative and a reasonable quantitative
agreement, emphasizing the importance of the magnetic-interaction and many-body
effects in the strong-field domain of high-Z ions
Polarization transfer in Rayleigh scattering of hard x-rays
Wereport on the first elastic hard x-ray scattering experiment where the linear polarizationcharacteristics of both the incident and the scattered radiation were observed. Rayleigh scattering wasinvestigated in a relativistic regime by using a high-Z target material, namely gold, and a photon energyof 175keV. Although the incident synchrotron radiation was nearly 100% linearly polarized, at ascattering angle of q = 90we observed a strong depolarization for the scattered photonswith adegree of linear polarization of +0.27% 0.12%only. This finding agreeswith second-orderquantum electrodynamics calculations of Rayleigh scattering, when taking into account a smallpolarization impurity of the incident photon beam which was determined to be close to 98%. Thelatter value was obtained independently from the elastic scattering by analyzing photons that wereCompton-scattered in the target. Moreover, our results indicate that when relying on state-of-the-arttheory, Rayleigh scattering could provide a very accurate method to diagnose polarization impuritiesin a broad region of hard x-ray energies
Electronic temperatures, densities and plasma X-ray emission of a 14.5 GHz Electron-Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source
We have performed a systematic study of the Bremsstrahlung emission from the
electrons in the plasma of a commercial 14.5 GHz Electron-Cyclotron Resonance
Ion Source. The electronic spectral temperature and the product of ionic and
electronic densities of the plasma are measured by analyzing the Bremsstrahlung
spectra recorded for several rare gases (Ar, Kr, Xe) as a function of the
injected power. Within our uncertainty, we find an average temperature of ? 48
keV above 100W, with a weak dependency on the injected power and gas
composition. Charge state distributions of extracted ion beams have been
determined as well, providing a way to disentangle the ionic density from the
electronic density. Moreover X-ray emission from highly charged argon ions in
the plasma has been observed with a high-resolution mosaic crystal
spectrometer, demonstrating the feasibility for high-precision measurements of
transition energies of highly charged ions, in particular of the magnetic
dipole (M1) transition of He-like of argon ions
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