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The structure and radiative lifetimes of negative ions homologous to N-

Su, Yangluojia ; Si, Ran LU ; Yao, Ke and Brage, Tomas LU (2019) In Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 52(12). p.1-11
Abstract

Negative ions homologous to N- are interesting systems, since there are several bound terms within the ground configuration. The forbidden transitions between them, often dominated by the magnetic dipole contributions, are affected by term mixing - a relativistic effect. When increasing the nuclear charge in the homologous sequence of negative ions, this effect increases. In this paper we use systematic multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations to study these effects and predict affinities, level splittings and transition rates between bound states of N-, P-, As-, Sb- and Bi-. By monitoring the line strengths we are able to predict the deviation from the... (More)

Negative ions homologous to N- are interesting systems, since there are several bound terms within the ground configuration. The forbidden transitions between them, often dominated by the magnetic dipole contributions, are affected by term mixing - a relativistic effect. When increasing the nuclear charge in the homologous sequence of negative ions, this effect increases. In this paper we use systematic multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations to study these effects and predict affinities, level splittings and transition rates between bound states of N-, P-, As-, Sb- and Bi-. By monitoring the line strengths we are able to predict the deviation from the non-relativistic LS-coupled values for transitions between levels of the lowest 3P term. For Sb- the 1D term is also bound, and the prediction for the rates of its transition to the 3P-levels is a challenge for theory. For Bi- less is known experimentally and we analyze its structure and the relativistic contributions to it.

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atomic structure, bound states, electron affinity, forbidden transitions, lifetimes, negative ions
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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
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12
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125002
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11 pages
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IOP Publishing
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0953-4075
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10.1088/1361-6455/ab19e3
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  author       = {{Su, Yangluojia and Si, Ran and Yao, Ke and Brage, Tomas}},
  issn         = {{0953-4075}},
  keywords     = {{atomic structure; bound states; electron affinity; forbidden transitions; lifetimes; negative ions}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{05}},
  number       = {{12}},
  pages        = {{1--11}},
  publisher    = {{IOP Publishing}},
  series       = {{Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics}},
  title        = {{The structure and radiative lifetimes of negative ions homologous to N<sup>-</sup>}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab19e3}},
  doi          = {{10.1088/1361-6455/ab19e3}},
  volume       = {{52}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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