Review of quantum collision dynamics in Debye plasmas

Hot,dense plasmas exhibit screened Coulomb interactions,resulting from the collective effects of correlated many-particle interactions.In the lowest particle correlation order(pair-wise correlations),the interaction between charged plasma particles reduces to the DebyeeHu¨ckel(Yukawa-type)potential,characterized by the Debye screening length.Due to the importance of Coulomb interaction screening in dense laboratory and astrophysical plasmas,hundreds of theoretical investigations have been carried out in the past few decades on the plasma screening effects on the electronic structure of atoms and their collision processes employing the DebyeeHu¨ckel screening model.The present article aims at providing a comprehensive review of the recent studies in atomic physics in Debye plasmas.Specifically,the work on atomic electronic structure,photon excitation and ionization,electron/positron impact excitation and ionization,and excitation,ionization and charge transfer of ion-atom/ion collisions will be reviewed.

Intensities and shifts of Lyman and Balmer lines of hydrogen-like ions in high density plasmas

The spectral line intensities and line shifts of Lyman and Balmer series for transitions up to n=5 of hydrogen-like ion are studied in plasmas with densities and temperatures in the ranges n_(c)~10^(18)-10^(21)cm^(-3),T_(e)=0.3e1.2 eV respectively.The screened potential used to describe the interaction between charged particles includes the electron exchange-correlation and finite-temperature gradient effects and is valid for both weakly and strongly coupled plasmas.The dependencies of alpha,beta and gamma line shifts of Lyman and Balmer series on plasma density(for fixed temperature)and temperature(for fixed density)are investigated.The results for the H_(a)line shifts are compared with the available high-density experimental data.

CTMC Investigation of Capture and Ionization Processes in P+H(1s) Collisions in Strong Transverse Magnetic Fields

The collision processes of proton with H(1s) atoms, which is embedded in strong transverse magnetic fields perpendicular to the initial velocity of the projectile, are studied with the classical trajectory Monte Carlo method in the energy range 25 keV /u–2000 keV /u and B ～ 104 T. It is found that the charge exchange cross section is decreased while the ionization cross section is increased significantly. The physics of magnetic field effects is analyzed by the time evolution of electron energy and trajectories, and it is found that these effects are induced by the diamagnetic term in the interaction, continuum electron trapping in the target regions and the Lorentz force. The velocity distributions of the ionized electrons, significantly influenced by the applied fields, are also presented.