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First-Order Amplitude for General State-to-State Transitions in Hydrogen by Projectile Impact
Physical Review A
  • Jack C. Straton, Portland State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-1991
Subjects
  • Particles (Nuclear physics),
  • Bessel functions,
  • Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Abstract

The closed analytic form for bound-state transitions due to projectile impact is found in the intermediate representation. The coordinate integral is obtained by evaluating the remaining two integrals in the general multicenter integral derived previously [J.C. Straton, Phys. Rev. A 41, 71 (1990)]. Evaluating the remaining time integral depends upon relating a sum of modified Bessel functions of the second kind KN+1/2(z) to a simple polynomial in 1/z. The results of Van Den Bos and De Heer [Physica 34, 333 (1967)] are shown to be missing a phase factor of (-i)(l′+l)

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At the time of publication Jack Straton was employed at Kansas State University.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.43.1381
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10996
Citation Information
Straton, Jack C. "First-order amplitude for general state-to-state transitions in hydrogen by projectile impact." Physical Review A 43.3 (1991): 1381. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.43.1381