Resonant coherent excitation of Li-like Ar15+ Ions in a Thin Si crystal

Abstract

We investigated resonant coherent excitation (RCE) of 445 MeV/u Li-like Ar15+ under the planar channeling and non-channeling conditions. The K-shell and L-shell excitations are observed as decreases in the survival fraction of the Ar15+ ions after passing through a thin Si crystal. RCE under the planar channeling condition provides the opportunity to study a strong static Stark effect on the Li-like system with K-shell or L-shell vacancy. Under the non-channeling conditions, the observed excitation energies and the reported theoretical calculations were in reasonable agreement. © 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.