Contributions from off-energy-shell states to inner-shell electron capture

It is shown that contributions from off-energy-shell intermediate states are small for inner-shell electron capture in highly asymmetric ion-atom collisions. We analyze the influence of the on-energy-shell discontinuities of the electron wave function by introducing a cut-off Coulomb potential. We f...

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Autores principales: Barrachina, R.O., Garibotti, C.R., Miraglia, J.E.
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_10502947_v31_n6_p4026_Barrachina
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Sumario:It is shown that contributions from off-energy-shell intermediate states are small for inner-shell electron capture in highly asymmetric ion-atom collisions. We analyze the influence of the on-energy-shell discontinuities of the electron wave function by introducing a cut-off Coulomb potential. We found that these discontinuities, which are mainly responsible for large corrections introduced by the strong-potential Born approximation, do not have physical meaning. © 1985 The American Physical Society.