Connection between superelastic and inelastic electron-atom collisions involving polarized collision partners

K. Bartschat and D. H. Madison
Phys. Rev. A 48, 836 – Published 1 July 1993
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Abstract

It is shown how the results of a recent experiment by Jiang, Zuo, Vušković, and Bederson [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 915 (1992)], who investigated low-energy electron scattering from laser-excited polarized sodium atoms in the initial (3p) 2P°3/2 (F=3, MF=3) state, can be related to the inelastic 3S→3P transition involving initially unpolarized electron and atom beams. Hence, this method can provide an independent check of the traditional electron-scattering experiment with unpolarized beams.

  • Received 17 December 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.48.836

©1993 American Physical Society

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K. Bartschat

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa 50311

D. H. Madison

  • Department of Physics and Laboratory for Atomic and Molecular Research, University of Missouri–Rolla, Rolla, Missouri 65401

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