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Hauptverfasser: Jeseněk, Anthony, Luque, Alejandro, Lehtinen, Nikolai
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Jeseněk, Anthony
Luque, Alejandro
Lehtinen, Nikolai
author_facet Jeseněk, Anthony
Luque, Alejandro
Lehtinen, Nikolai
contents The original binary-encounter Bethe model of Kim and Eugene Rudd (1994 Phys. Rev. A 50 3954-67) has proven to be an accurate analytical representation of total impact ionisation cross sections of electrons colliding with atoms and molecules. It is based on a decomposition into partial ionisation cross sections from electrons in bound orbitals. Despite the model's accuracy for total ionisation, its individual partial cross sections for ionisation rely on thresholds calculated theoretically which systematically overestimate the experimental orbital binding energies. Here, we examine the BEB model's performance when based on experimental ionisation thresholds. The resulting partial cross sections of the various final (excited) ionic states produced could help to prefigure subsequent optical radiations and non-radiative transitions in models of plasma physics.
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spellingShingle Partial ionisation cross sections for the binary-encounter Bethe model
Jeseněk, Anthony
Luque, Alejandro
Lehtinen, Nikolai
Atomic Physics
The original binary-encounter Bethe model of Kim and Eugene Rudd (1994 Phys. Rev. A 50 3954-67) has proven to be an accurate analytical representation of total impact ionisation cross sections of electrons colliding with atoms and molecules. It is based on a decomposition into partial ionisation cross sections from electrons in bound orbitals. Despite the model's accuracy for total ionisation, its individual partial cross sections for ionisation rely on thresholds calculated theoretically which systematically overestimate the experimental orbital binding energies. Here, we examine the BEB model's performance when based on experimental ionisation thresholds. The resulting partial cross sections of the various final (excited) ionic states produced could help to prefigure subsequent optical radiations and non-radiative transitions in models of plasma physics.
title Partial ionisation cross sections for the binary-encounter Bethe model
topic Atomic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10817