2015/12/29 by Gaurav Sharma, Nitin Kumar Puri, Sharma, Gaurav +8
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1512.08611
arxiv created 2015/12/29 · openalex publication_date 2015/12/29 · arxiv updated 2015/12/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Production of projectile Rydberg states in fast ion-solid collisions in H-like ions exhibits a pronounce target thickness dependence in spite of these states forming at the last layers. This occurs due to important role of the surface wake field which varies with the target foil thickness. Further, according to the proposed model Rydberg states with low angular momentum are transformed into a circular Rydberg states while passing through the field. The transfer occurs by a single multiphoton process with high probability depending upon the projectile ion velocity with respect to the Fermi velocity of the target electrons.