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Relativistic Electron-Atom Collisions: Recent Progress and Applications

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New Trends in Atomic and Molecular Physics

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A review of the present relativistic methods to study electron impact excitation of atoms (ions) is given. Application of relativistic distorted wave theory has been described in detail. The importance of implementing fine-structure resolved cross sections to a collisional radiative model for Ar-plasma has been discussed.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Prof. A.D. Stauffer and our other co-workers for their collaborations in using the distorted wave theory presented here which resulted in the form of several joint publications. R.S. acknowledges research grants in support of this work from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, and IAEA, Vienna.

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Srivastava, R., Sharma, L. (2013). Relativistic Electron-Atom Collisions: Recent Progress and Applications. In: Mohan, M. (eds) New Trends in Atomic and Molecular Physics. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38167-6_9

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