Theory of electron scattering from laser excited atoms
- 11 November 1974
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 7 (16), 2173-2188
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/7/16/016
Abstract
An expression is derived for the intensity of electrons inelastically scattered from an atomic state prepared by optical pumping. The expression is a sum of state multipoles, the coefficient of each multipole being a spherical harmonic in the polar coordinates of the light direction for circularly polarized light, or the direction of the electric vector for linearly polarized light times a weight function depending on the population of the initial state. These weight functions are given in closed form for both linearly and circularly polarized light.Keywords
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