Eur. Phys. J. D 3, 163-174 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050160

Theoretical study of collisional redistribution of light near the resonance of the Ba, Sr and Mg atoms perturbed by He and Ne

Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk , 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland

Corresponding author: ^a fizec@univ.gda.pl

Received: 19 February 1998
Accepted: 9 April 1998
Published online: 15 August 1998

Abstract

Absorption coefficient and polarization of collisionally redistributed fluorescence light in a range of detunings around the atomic resonance have been calculated for Ba, Sr and Mg perturbed by He and Ne. Results are obtained from fully-quantum mechanical coupled-channels calculations including the relevant ground and two excited and molecular states for each diatomic. Close-coupling calculations are carried out based on the theoretical potential curves obtained by means of a pseudopotential + valence configuration-interaction (CI) technique. For accurate comparison with experiment the calculated absorption coefficients and polarizations have been thermally averaged over the collision energy. The theoretical absorption profiles and linear polarization ratios agree, in general, quite well with the available experimental data.