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Influence of an external electric field on thermal collisions between circular Rydberg-state atoms and ground-state helium

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The influence of an external electric field on thermal collisions between a sodium atom excited in a ''circular'' Rydberg state and a ground-state helium atom is studied numerically within the framework of the impulse approximation. The effect of the field is determined by using parabolic wave functions for the initial and final hydrogenic atomic states. The removal of degeneracy induced by the field appears to have no significant effect for fields in the range of 0-400 V/cm

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
3 p.
Report number
CEA-CONF--8494

Conference

Title
17. National conference on atomic and molecular physics.
Dates
8-10 Apr 1986.
Place
Aberdeen (UK).

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
18003347
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ATOM-ATOM COLLISIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GROUND STATES; HELIUM; IMPULSE APPROXIMATION; RYDBERG STATES; SODIUM
Descriptors DEC
ALKALI METALS; ATOM COLLISIONS; COLLISIONS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY LEVELS; EXCITED STATES; METALS; NONMETALS; RARE GASES