Charge-exchange x-ray spectra: Evidence for significant contributions from radiative decays of doubly excited states
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Ali, Rami
Beiersdorfer, Peter
Harris, C. L.
Neill, P. A.
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2016
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Charge-exchange collisions of slow Ne10+ ions with He, Ne, and Ar targets were studied with simultaneous x-ray and cold-target recoil-ion-momentum spectroscopy proving the contribution of several mechanisms to the radiative stabilization of apparent (4,4) doubly excited states for He and Ne targets and of (5,6) states for Ar. In particular, the stabilization efficiency of the mechanism of dynamic auto-transfer to Rydberg states is confirmed. Moreover, we present evidence for direct radiative decays of (4,4) states populated in collisions with He, which is an experimental indication of the population of so-called unnatural-parity states in such collisions. These mechanisms lead to the emission of x-rays that have considerably higher energies than those predicted by current spectral models and may explain recent observations of anomalously large x-ray emission from Rydberg levels.
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Ali, R., Beiersdorfer, P., Harris, C. L., & Neill, P. A. (2016). Charge-exchange x-ray spectra: Evidence for significant contributions from radiative decays of doubly excited states. Physical Review A, 93(1). doi:10.1103/physreva.93.012711
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1050-2947