Theoretical analysis of atomic parameters of Sm-like and Nd-like W ions in soft x-ray region

Abstract

We calculated atomic data such as energy levels, transition wavelengths, oscillator strengths and transition rates for Sm-like and Nd-like W ions. We employed flexible atomic code (FAC) in our computations. We computed fine structure levels of configurations 4f125s2, 4f125s5p and 4f135s for Nd-like W and configurations 4f145s2, 4f135s25p and 4f125s25p2 for Sm-like W. We have provided transition data of electric dipole (E1) transitions and magnetic quadrupole (M2) transitions for transition 4f125s2—4f125s5p and magnetic dipole (M1) and electric quadrupole (E2) transition data for transition 4f145s2 − 4f125s25p2. We also found that spectral lines of these transitions in Sm and Nd-like W ion spectra lie in soft x-ray (SXR) region. We compared transition data of Nd-like W and excitation energies of Sm-like W ions with available theoretical and experimental results. We also discussed the effect of configuration interaction on atomic data of Nd-like W and excitation energies of Sm-like W by systematically increasing the number of configurations.