2006/10/28 by P. Indelicato, Paul Indelicato, S. Boucard +18
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Nuclear Physics and Applications #X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.011
arxiv created 2006/10/28 · openalex publication_date 2007/05/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Radiation from the highly-charged ions contained in the plasma of Electron-Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources constitutes a very bright source of X-rays. Because the ions have a relatively low kinetic energy (≈ 1 eV) transitions can be very narrow, containing only small Doppler broadening. We describe preliminary accurate measurements of two and three-electron ions with Z=16--18. We show how these measurement can test sensitively many-body relativistic calculations or can be used as X-ray standards for precise measurements of X-ray transitions in exotic atoms.