K-SHELL RESONANT TRANSFER AND EXCITATION IN CALCIUM-IONS

We have calculated K-shell cross sections for the process of resonant transfer excitation followed by x-ray stabilization (RTEX) in collisions of Caq+ (q=10 12,16 19) ions with H2. Our KLn intermediate-coupling results are in excellent agreement with the experimental results of Tanis et al. [Phys. Rev. A 34, 2534 (1986)] for q=16 18, particularly when supplemented by our LS-coupling results for the KMn transitions. The comparison for q=19 is hampered by the nonresonant background, but our results are consistent with experiment. Our LS-coupling results for KLn-plus-KMn transitions are in good agreement with experiment for q=11 and 12. But for q=10 our KMn RTEX cross sections are much smaller than the sparse experimental results, indicating a large nonresonant experimental background. © 1990 The American Physical Society.