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Absorption coefficient and polarization of collisionally redistributed fluorescence light in a range of detunings around the atomic resonance have been calculated for Ba, Sr and Mg perturbed by He and Ne. Results are obtained from fully-quantum mechanical coupled-channels calculations including the relevant ground and two excited and molecular states for each diatomic. Close-coupling calculations are carried out based on the theoretical potential curves obtained by means of a pseudopotential + valence configuration-interaction (CI) technique. For accurate comparison with experiment the calculated absorption coefficients and polarizations have been thermally averaged over the collision energy. The theoretical absorption profiles and linear polarization ratios agree, in general, quite well with the available experimental data.
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Received: 19 February 1998 / Accepted: 9 April 1998
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Paul-Kwiek, E., Czuchaj, E. Theoretical study of collisional redistribution of light near the resonance of the Ba, Sr and Mg atoms perturbed by He and Ne. Eur. Phys. J. D 3, 163–174 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050160
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050160