Study of electron impact excitation of H-like Si13+ ion in dense plasma environment

Abstract

The relativistic configuration interaction technique has been employed to study the electron impact excitation collision strengths of H-like Si13+ ion in strongly coupled plasma environment. The analytical plasma screening b-potential has been adopted to determine the physical effects of the screened Coulomb interaction due to the influence of plasma on the atomic structure and dynamics affecting atomic processes. The modified Dirac equations are solved to obtain the bound and continuum state wave functions. We examine the plasma screening effect by considering the plasma conditions at the electron temperatures of 200, 600 and 1000 eV over electron density range of 2.0 × 1023 - 1.0 × 1024 cm−3. The present results highlight that the inclusion of plasma environment induces significant effect on the binding energies, transition energies, radiative transition probabilities, oscillator strengths and collision strengths. It has been observed that the collision strength decreases with increase in plasma electron density for a fixed temperature. Our results will be beneficial for laser produced plasmas, high energy density physics, astrophysical applications and will open the door to modelling and advanced diagnostics of solar and stellar plasmas.