Electron Impact Ionization of Sodium Rydberg Atoms below 2 eV

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1132021-1132024

  Nagesha, K ^a   MacAdam, K B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRON BEAMS; IMPACT IONIZATION; KINETIC ENERGY; SODIUM;

ENERGY RESOLUTION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0142120773     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.113202     Document Type: Article

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