JRM Progress Report 2000

	JRM Progress Report 2000

We submitted our Progress Report to the Department of Energy in May 2000. You can read each section of the report using Adobe Acrobat by clicking the links below, or you may download the entire set of Acrobat files in a 2.8 MB Zip archive.

PROGRESS REPORT FOR GRANT NO: DE-FG02-86ER13491 REPORTING PERIOD: 15 MAY 1997 - 14 MAY 2000 Front Matter Cover Page Forward Table of Contents JRML Personnel Introduction A: ATOMIC PHYSICS WITH HIGHLY CHARGED IONS - EXPERIMENT Section A-1: Electron and X-ray Production in Ion-Atom Collisions Double Differential Cross Sections for Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen and Helium by High Velocity, Highly Charged Ions Low Velocity Collisions: COLTRIMS Measurements of Electron Spectra from Low Energy Ionization of Light Targets High Velocity Collisions: Kinematically Complete Measurements of the Single Ionization of He by Fast Protons and Highly Charged Ions Collective ECC Cusp in Many-Electron Continua in Strong Field Heavy Ion Collisions Two-Electron Continua in Heavy Ion Collisions X-Ray Emission from Ta^q+ (q=45-49) + Ar Collisions at Low Energies Enhancement of Al-K and Molecular Orbital X-rays in Collisions of Low Energy Ne Ions with K-shell Vacancies Section A-2: Electron-Ion Scattering - The Quasi-Free Electron Model Elastic Scattering of Electrons from Ions Inelastic Scattering of Electrons from Ions Superelastic Scattering of Electrons from Metastable Ions Elastic Scattering of Electrons from Metastable Ions - Formation of Triply Excited States Kinematically Complete Differential Ionization Cross Sections for 2 keV Electron Impact Ionization of C²⁺ Section A-3: Electron Capture and Transfer Ionization in Ion-Atom Collisions COLTRIMS Measurements of Low Energy Capture from He Low Energy Capture from Molecules: Electron Capture from D₂ by Low Energy Xe²⁶⁺ and Protons Transfer Ionization to Single Capture Ratio for Fast Multiply Charged Ions on COLTRIMS with a Laser-Cooled Target Charge Transfer in Extremely Slow Collisions between Highly Charged Ions and Helium Collisions of Slow, Highly Charged Ions with Coherent Elliptical State Rydberg Atoms: Electron Capture as a Function of Principal Quantum Number Collisions of Slow, Highly Charged Ions with Coherent Elliptical State Rydberg Atoms: Impact Perpendicular to the Minor Axis Coherent Elliptical State Rydberg Atoms: Dynamics in Crossed E and B Fields Coherent Elliptical State Rydberg Atoms: Efficient Production Through the Use of Single Mode Diode Lasers Ion-Rydberg Atom Collisions: Energy Transfer in Charge Exchange Section A-4: Study of Molecular Systems Ground State Dissociation of HD⁺ One- and Two-Electron Processes in Ion-Hydrogen Molecule Collisions Slow Ion-Molecule Collisions Formation and Decay Mechanisms of Doubly Charged Molecular Ions Section A-5: Ion-Surface Interactions Energy and Charge Dependence of the Sputtering Induced by Highly Charged Xe Ions Absolute Calibration of Electron Multipliers for Highly Charged Ions Galileo Microchannel Plates as Detectors of Ions having Atomic Masses from 1 to 181, Charge States from 1 to 44 and Energy Range from 0.5 to 150 keV/q Damage and Curing of a Multi-channel Plate (MCP) Detector Under Heavy Ion Bombardment Correlation between Secondary Electron Emission Yields and Pulse Height Distributions from Multi-channel Plate (MCP) Particle Detector Section A-6: Ion-Ion Collisions Ion-Ion Collisions Involving Molecular Systems Section A-7: Offsite Experiments Double Photo-Ionization of He and D₂ by Single Photons Triple Photo-Ionization of Lithium Ion-Trap Studies of Negative Ions and Vibrationally Cold Molecular Ions B. ATOMIC PHYSICS WITH HIGHLY CHARGED IONS: THEORY Section B-1: Ion-Atom Collision Theory Solution of the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation in Momentum Space Impact Velocity Dependence of Ejected Electron Momentum Distributions for Proton-Hydrogen Collisions Do v/2 Electrons Imply the Saddle Point Mechanism for Ion Impact Ionization of Atoms? Impact Ionization of Helium by Antiprotons Below 40 keV Electron Capture Cross Sections in Selected Collision Systems Other Collaborative Projects Atomic Structure Calculations: Radiative and Auger De-Excitation Of Hollow Calcium and Argon Atoms Section B-2: Electron-Ion Scattering Section B-3: Phase-Amplitude Method Section B-4: Interactions of Ions with Surfaces, Thin Films, and Clusters Charge Exchange in Ion-Surface Collisions Soft Collisions Between Highly Charged Ions and C₆₀ Section B-5: Atomic Theory of Strongly Correlated Systems Overview Hyperspherical Approach for Three-Electron Atoms Proof of No ⁴S⁰ Resonance in H₂ Visualization of Electron Correlations in Intrashell Triply Excited States of Atoms Other Projects Involving Atomic Systems Weakly Bound Triatomic Molecules and Diatomic Molecular Anions Bound States of Positrons with Li and Na Charge Transfer in D⁺+H(1s) and in µ⁺+H(1s) Reactions at Low Energies Other Activities C. FACILITIES OPERATION Section C-1: Low Energy Ion Collision Facility Section C-2: Laboratory Accelerators Operations Progress Report Section C-3: Data Acquisition System, LINAC Computer Control, and JRML Electronics Shop Back Matter List of Publications


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