Self-Consistent and Unified Computations for Photoionization and Recombination

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Thoretically self-consistent calculations are carried out for the inverse processes of photoionization and (e + ion) recombination in the coupled channel approximation using an identical eigenfunction expansion for atoms and ions for both processes. The treatment for (e + ion) recombination subsumes the non-resonant radiative recombination and the resonant dielectronic recombination (RR and DR) processes in a unified scheme(S.N. Nahar and A.K. Pradhan, Phys. Rev. A 49), 1816 (1994);H.L. Zhang, S.N. Nahar, and A.K. Pradhan, J.Phys.B, 32,1459 (1999).. Results are presented for carbon-like ions Ar XIII, Ca XV and Fe XXI. Level-specific calculations for each ion are carried out for a large number of about 700 bound states with n <= 10 and l <= 9. Recombination to all higher nℓ levels, 10 < n <= , is consdered via close coupling calculations for DR. Relativistic effects are included using the Breit-Pauli R-matrix approximation for the He- and Li-like ions, O VI and O VII, important in X-ray astronomy. In addition to the total, unified recombination rates (α_R(T)), level-specific recombination rates and photoionization cross sections (σ_PI(E)) are obtained for a large number of bound levels for each ion. Partial support from the NSF and NASA is acknowledged.

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