Plasma Shift and Broadening of Resolved H_α Fine Structure Lines

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE V
3. CONTENTS VII
4. Chapter I. HYDROGENIC EMITTERS IN MODERATELY DENSE PLASMAS
5. Theory of Hydrogen Stark Broadening 1
6. The Microfield Formulation of Spectral Line Broadening 41
7. Influence of Different Ion Dynamical Effects on Lyman Lines 63
8. Theory Including Non-Adiabatic Effects of Ion Dynamics 73
9. Is Ion Dynamics Really so Important? 91
10. Stark Broadening of the Hydrogen Resonance Line L_y in Comparison to Lα and L_β 103
11. Long Path Absorption Measurements of the Pressure-Broadened Balmer-Alpha Profile 119
12. The Influence of the Gas Temperature on the Central Part of the Stark Profile of Balmer Beta 135
13. Investigation of the Stark Broadening of Balmer Beta 141
14. Experimental Stark Profiles of He II 3203 and He II 4686 153
15. Some Comments on Hydrogenic Lines in a Plasma - Shifts, Asymmetries and Widths 165
16. Chapter II. TWO- AND MORE-ELECTRON EMITTERS IN MODERATELY DENSE PLASMAS
17. Experimental Study of Plasma Broadened He I Lines With Forbidden Components 179
18. Stark Broadening of Isolated Ion Lines by Plasmas: Theory 191
19. Stark Broadening of Isolated Ion Lines by Plasmas: Application of Theory 201
20. Modified Semiempirical Formula for the Electron-Impact Width of Ionized Atom Lines: Theory and Applications 211
21. On the Systematic Trends of Stark Broadening Parameters of Isolated Lines in Plasmas 241
22. Stark Parameter Dependence on the Ionization Potential 249
23. Stark Broadening and Shift of Cs I and A1 II Lines 253
24. Experimental and Calculated Xe I and Xe II Stark Widths 257
25. Stark Broadening of Krypton Lines 265
26. The Broadening of Spectral Lines by Autoionization, Radiative Transitions, and Collisions 275
27. The Effect of Electric Fields on Autoionization Resonances 281
28. Chapter III. HIGHLY IONIZED EMITTERS IN EXTREMELY DENSE PLASMAS
29. Diagnosis of High-Density Laser Compressed Plasmas Using Spectral Line Profiles 295
30. Line Shapes in High Density Plasmas 333
31. Line Shapes in the Simulation of Radiative Transfer 359
32. Emission Line Shapes From Laser Compression Plasmas 367
33. Doppler Profiles of XUV Emission From Dense Plasmas 373
34. Stark Broadening in Hot, Dense, Laser-Produced Plasmas: Full Coulomb Electron Interactions 379
35. Intermediate Coupling Effects on Helium-Like Ion Lines From Dense Plasmas 391
36. Broadening of Hydrogenic X Rays Emitted by a Laser-Produced Plasma 397
37. Stark Broadening of Isolated Lines From High-Z Emitters in Dense Plasmas 433
38. Second-Order Corrections to Thermal Microfield in Dense Plasmas 447
39. Stark Effect in Strong Non-Homogeneous t Field 457
40. Chapter IV. LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF PLASMAS AND PLASMA SATELLITES
41. Laser Spectroscopy of Plasmas in Application to Measurements of Line Shapes and Collision Rates 473
42. Investigation of Plasma-Satellites by Laser-Fluorescence Spectroscopy 517
43. The Last Truth on Plasma Satellites? 527
44. The Problem of Molecular Lines in the Study of Plasma Satellites 577
45. Chapter V. LINE BROADENING BY FOREIGN GASES
46. Model Potential Calculations for Alkali-Rare-Gas Systems. Comparison With Experiment 593
47. Ab Initio Calculation of Potential Energy Surfaces. Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Representations 615
48. Quasimolecular Interpretation of Collision Effects on Atomic Forbidden Transitions 631
49. Theory of Spectral Line Broadening by Neutral Gas at Intermediate Densities 651
50. Multiple Perturber Satellites: Theory and Experiment 665
51. Blue Satellite of the K(5P-4S) Doublet Perturbed by Neon 689
52. Interatomic Potentials for Hg-Kr From Measurements of Pressure o Broadening of the Hg-2537 Å Line 695
53. Study of Collision-Induced Absorption in Dipole Electronic Transitions of Alkali-Rare Gas Atom Pairs 705
54. Experimental Study of Two-Photon Absorption of Sodium Perturbed by Collisions With Noble Gas Atoms 721
55. Broadening and Shifts of the Resonance Lines of Neutral and Signly Ionized Mg, Ca and Sr. 733
56. Pressure Broadening and Pressure Shift of the Cadmium Intero combination Line at λ = 3261 Å 741
57. Quasi-Static Wings of K Spectral Lines Broadened by Cs 751
58. Observation of Non-Lorentzian Spectral Lineshapes in Na-Noble Gas Systems 757
59. Chapter VI. EXCIMERS
60. Alkali-Rare Gas Excimers 767
61. A Model for the Rare Gas Excimers With Spin Orbit Coupling. I. Interaction Potential. II. Dipole Moment 789
62. Synchrotron Radiation Experimental Determination of Rare Gas Excimer States: Comparison With Recent Theoretical Calculation 803
63. VUV Emission Spectroscopy of Rare Gas Excimers After keV-Electron Impact Excitation 815
64. Determination of Excimer Potential Curves From VUV-Fluorescence Intensities 819
65. Chapter VII. RESONANCE BROADENING
66. Self-Broadening in Metal Vapors 827
67. Quasistatic Self-Broadening of Li and Na First Resonance Lines 845
68. Triplet Satellite Bands in the Very Far Blue Wings of the Self- Broadened Alkali D Lines 851
69. Discrepancy With Theoretical Resonance Broadening on the He Line at 2.06 pm 857
70. Chapter VIII. COLLISIONAL REDISTRIBUTION OF RESONANCE RADIATION AND RELATED PHENOMENA
71. Recent Developments in Line Shape Theory 867
72. Collisional Redistribution of Resonance Radiation 885
73. Collisional Redistribution of Strong Resonance Radiation 899
74. Collisional Depolarization and Redistribution of Laser Radiation in Near Resonance With A ²S_1/2 +- ²P - Transition 921
75. Far Wing Depolarization of Light: Generalized Absorption Profiles 929
76. Power-Broadening of the Na-D Lines in a Flame Irradiated With a Pulsed Tunable Dye Laser 937
77. Unified Theory of Pressure Broadened Absorption Spectra in Strong Radiation Fields 945
78. Line Broadening Caused by Laser Linewidth 955
79. An Experimental Study of the Collision Broadening of the Na-D Doublet Lines in Flames and Absorption Cells With Ar and N₂ Perturbers 963
80. Structured Continuum in the Fluorescence Spectrum of Cs₂ 983
81. Light-Induced Collisional Energy Transfer 997
82. Collision Induced Pair Absorption in Pure and Mixed Alkalis 1019
83. Collision Induced Scattering of Light in Mercury Vapour: Some Experimental and Theoretical Results 1027
84. Inelastic Collisions Between Selectively Excited Rubidium Atoms and Ground State Rubidium Atoms Observed by Laser Induced Fluorescence 1033
85. Chapter IX. DOPPLER-FREE TECHNIQUES
86. Resonance Fluorescence From Single Ions at Rest 1045
87. Broadening and Shift of High Rydberg States Measured by Doppler- Free Two-Photon Spectroscopy 1071
88. Broadening and Shift Measurements of Doppler-Free Two-Photon Lines With the Thermionic Diode 1083
89. The Measurement of Collisional Lineshapes Using Optical Echo Techniques 1093
90. Collision Studies of H_α Fine Structure Lines With High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy 1113
91. Effect of Quenching Collisions on Density Shift and Broadening 1123
92. Plasma Shift and Broadening of Resolved H_α Fine Structure Lines 1133
93. Chapter X. RELATED TOPICS
94. Light Scattering From a Non-Equilibrium Fluid 1143
95. Validity of Semiclassical Small Angle Scattering Amplitudes for the Calculation of Elastic Collision Kernels With Lennard-Jones Intermolecular Potentials 1159
96. Modification of Microwave Radiation due to Electron-Molecule Collisions 1183
97. Author Index 1190
98. Subject Index 1192