Issue |
A&A
Volume 656, December 2021
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Article Number | A79 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141185 | |
Published online | 03 December 2021 |
Electron-impact ionization of Ar2+
Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy Vilnius University,
Saulėtekio av. 3,
10257
Vilnius,
Lithuania
e-mail: ausra.kyniene@tfai.vu.lt
Received:
23
April
2021
Accepted:
20
September
2021
We study electron-impact single-ionization cross-sections for all levels of the ground configuration of the Ar2+ ion using the distorted wave approximation. We investigate the influences of the direct ionization and excitation-autoionization processes on the total single-ionization cross sections. We used corrected energies for the levels of the Ar3+ ion so that the ionization threshold corresponds to the value recommended by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Radiative damping is taken into account for the ionization cross-sections of the indirect process. Excitations from the 3s and 3p subshells are investigated for the indirect process. We demonstrate that the excitations from the outermost 3p subshell of the ground configuration provide an important contribution to the single ionization cross-sections at low energies. Fairly good agreement with measurements is obtained for the ground level of the Ar2+ ion. We show that the direct ionization provides ~70% at peak of the total single-ionization cross-sections.
Key words: atomic processes / atomic data / plasmas
© ESO 2021
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