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Neutral resonant ionization in a H⁻ plasma source: Potential of doubly excited **H⁻
1University of California (retired), 8300 Feliz Creek Dr., Ukiah, California 95482, USA.
Abstract:
Hydrogen plasmas are optically dense to Lyman-α radiation, maintaining *H(n = 2) neutral atoms that may undergo neutral resonant ionization to **H(-). One state, **H(-)(2p(2) (3)P(e)), is thought bound at 9.7 meV with a several nanosecond lifetime while all others are unbound resonances. Collision dynamics of two *H(2s) shows that an ionic pair of (p, **H(-)) resolves at least three long-standing collision experiments. The doubly excited anion also has a path to the unexcited ion pair whose only physical distinction is that both (p, H(-)) have energy of 3.7 eV.
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