IONIZATION OF EXCITED HYDROGENIC ATOMS BY FAST ELECTRON IMPACT

O. A. Fojon, R.D. Rivarola and C. Stia

Instituto de Fisica Rosario (CONICET-UNR), Av. Pellegrini 250,
2000 - Rosario, Argentina

In this work we study theoretically the structures in the triply-differential
cross section for electron impact ionization of excited hydrogenic atoms at
intermediate and high impact energies. A new analytical and numerical
technique is introduced to calculate the cross sections.