Transferred orbital angular momentum in the low-energy electron impact excitation of the 1S0-1P1 transition in barium

Superelastic electron scattering involving the collisional de-excitation of laser-excited 138Ba(...6s6p 1P1) atoms to the (...6s21S0) ground state has been used to measure electron impact coherence parameters for the related (...6s21S0) to (...6s6p 1P1) inelastic process. Measurements of the orbital angular momentum transfer parameter, Lperp+, were made for excitation at impact energies of 7, 8.5, 11 and 16 eV. Experimental data are compared with available theoretical results. (author)