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Dielectronic Recombination of Ground-State and Metastable Li+ Ions

A. A. Saghiri, J. Linkemann, M. Schmitt, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, T. Bartsch, A. Hoffknecht, A. Mueller, W. G. Graham, A. D. Price, N. R. Badnell, T. W. Gorczyca, J. A. Tanis

physics.atom-pharXiv:physics/9907030

Abstract

Dielectronic recombination has been investigated for Delta-n = 1 resonances of ground-state Li+(1s2) and for Delta-n = 0 resonances of metastable Li+(1s2s 3S). The ground-state spectrum shows three prominent transitions between 53 and 64 eV, while the metastable spectrum exhibits many transitions with energies < 3.2 eV. Reasonably good agreement of R-matrix, LS coupling calculations with the measured recombination rate coefficient is obtained. The time dependence of the recombination rate yields a radiative lifetime of 52.2 +- 5.0 s for the 2 3S level of Li+.

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