Eur. Phys. J. D 51, 179-184 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2009-00015-y

Analysis of X-ray spectra emitted from laser-produced plasmas of uranium^*

¹ Centro de Física Atómica e Departamento Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Ed. C8, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
² Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, Case 74, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
³ Centro de Física Atómica da Universidade de Lisboa e Departamento Física da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da Caparica, 2825-114 Caparica, Portugal

Corresponding author: ^a jmmarques@fc.ul.pt

Received: 21 October 2008
Published online: 29 January 2009

Abstract

In this paper, we used the multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method to generate theoretical X-ray spectra for Co-, Ni-, Cu-, Zn-, Ga-, Ge-, As-, Se-, Br-, Kr-, and Rb-like uranium ions. Using the distribution of these ions in a laser-produced plasma, for different plasma temperatures, we generate theoretical spectra which are compared to experimental data.