https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2013-02011-2
Regular Article
Differential L-shell radiative recombination rate coefficients for bare uranium ions interacting with low-energy electrons
1 Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, 25-406 Kielce, Poland
2 ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI and Research Division, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
3 FIAS Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
4 Physics Institute, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
5 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
6 Helmholtz-Institut Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
a e-mail: d.banas@ujk.edu.pl
Received: 8 June 2013
Revised: 9 August 2013
Published online: 23 October 2013
Results of the calculations of differential L−shell radiative recombination (RR) rate coefficients for bare uranium ions colliding with free electrons using the nonrelativistic dipole approximation and fully relativistic calculations are reported. The rate coefficients were obtained for very low, in the range of meV, relative electron-ion energies. We demonstrate that even for such low relative ion-electron energies the relativistic effects significantly modify the differential RR rate coefficients for the L−subshells and, as a result, the measurements of the relative electron energy dependence of the L-RR rates could be used for studying of the relativistic effects. These effects are strongest for the L3-subshell, which is discussed here in more details.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2013
