Electron transfer in proton‐hydrogen collisions in nonideal classical plasmas.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Das, Kamalika; Rej, Pramit; Ghoshal, Arijit
- Source
- Contributions to Plasma Physics. Nov2020, Vol. 60 Issue 10, p1-9. 9p.
- Subject
- *CHARGE exchange
*SCATTERING amplitude (Physics)
*ELECTRON impact ionization
*WAVE functions
*HYDROGEN atom
*CHARGE transfer
- Language
- ISSN
- 0863-1042
Effects of nonideality of classical plasma on the reaction: p + H(1s) → H(nlm) + p has been investigated by carrying out fully quantum mechanical calculations within the framework of a first‐order distorted wave method. Scattering amplitude is calculated conveniently by employing a simple, variationally determined wave function of hydrogen atom embedded in nonideal classical plasma. A detailed study is made on the changes in electron transfer cross sections due to the nonideality of plasma varying from 0 to 4 and the incident proton energy lying between 10 and 500 keV. It has been found that nonideality of plasma causes substantial change in capture cross section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]