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On the Importance of the Second Order Term for Double Excitation Processes of Helium by Charged Particles

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n this article we survey some new theoretical results on double excitation processes of ground state helium by electrons and positively charged particles such as positrons (e+) and carbon nuclei (C6+). Our interest lies in the high energy regime and in geometries for which the ejected electron is very much slower than the incident and scattered charged particle, which in our approximation are represented by plane waves. Under these conditions we may think of the collision as exciting a continuum state ???f of the isolated atom. In the case of excitation-ionization this state consists of the ejected electron, momentum K, moving in the field of an excited He+ ion, for example, the system {He+(2s or 2p) + e-(K)}.

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Marchalant, P.J., Whelan, C.T., Rasch, J., Walters, H.R.J., Madison, D.H. (2001). On the Importance of the Second Order Term for Double Excitation Processes of Helium by Charged Particles. In: Berakdar, J., Kirschner, J. (eds) Many-Particle Spectroscopy of Atoms, Molecules, Clusters, and Surfaces. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1311-7_25

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