Published December 28, 1987
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Journal article
Influence of coherence on associative ionization in Na(3p)+Na(3p) collisions
- 1. Fysisch Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Description
We have investigated the associative ionization of Na atoms in two counterpropagating thermal beams independently excited by various combinations of linearly and circularly polarized light. In this way information about coherence contributions to the ion signal has been obtained for the first time. These contributions which correspond to off-diagonal elements of the detection matrix have hitherto been neglected, but are of the same magnitude as the cross sections themselves and depend on the velocity
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Volume
- 59
- Journal Issue
- 26
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 2939-2942
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19037861
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ATOM-ATOM COLLISIONS; ATOMIC BEAMS; IONIZATION; MATRIX ELEMENTS; P STATES; POLARIZED BEAMS; SODIUM; VELOCITY
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METALS; ATOM COLLISIONS; BEAMS; COLLISIONS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY LEVELS; METALS