The effects of quantum interference between direct and resonant photorecombination of H-like Ar17+ ions

Abstract

The multiconfiguration Dirac–Fock method has been used to study interference effects between direct and resonant photorecombination (i.e. radiative and dielectronic recombination) from the ground state 1s2S1/2 of H-like Ar17+ ions via doubly excited 2s21S0, 2s2p 3P0, 1, 2, 1P1 and 2p23P0, 1, 2, 1D2, 1S0 resonances of He-like Ar16+ ions combined with the Fano parameterization technique. In order to produce total photorecombination spectra, it is necessary to calculate the energy levels of the 1s of H-like Ar17+ ions, 1s2, 1s2l and 2l2l′ (l,l′ =0, 1) of He-like Ar16+ ions, the radiative and nonradiative properties of the doubly excited states of He-like Ar16+ ions, and the direct and resonant photorecombination cross sections from the 1s state of H-like Ar17+ ions into the ground state 1s2 and the single excited states of 1s2l (l=0, 1) of He-like Ar16+ ions, in detail. Based on good agreement between the present calculations and other available experimental and theoretical results, the interference profile determined by the so-called Fano parameters q and ρ2 is also shown. The results indicate that interference effects are remarkable at some resonances, especially near the doubly excited 2s2p 1P1 state of He-like Ar16+ ions, and strongly influence the intensity of the wing of the nonresonant background in the photorecombination of H-like Ar17+ ions through comparison between the final Fano and total radiative recombination to dielectronic recombination spectra.