Affiliation:
1. 1Département de la Physique du Plasma et de la Fusion Contrôlée, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, 92 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Abstract
Abstract Stark broadening of spectral lines is considered as a semi-classical many-body problem. Starting from a Liouville equation for a distribution function depending on the atomic Hilbert space vector and the coordinates and velocities of the classical plasma particles, BBGKY hierarchy techniques are used to derive a complete line profile for the electron contribution. The line shape formula is expressed in terms of the atomic time evolution operator for a collision with a single plasma electron. This operator is approximated by a strictly unitary exponential expression, yielding more accuracy than second order perturbation theory and being valid also in the quasi-static limit. The resulting line shape expression covers the whole frequency domain from the impact regime to the quasi-static regime. The results of the impact and quasi-static approximations are recovered as special cases for small and large distances from the line center. A numerical application to Lyman - α shows very good agreement with an experiment of Boldt and Cooper.
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy,Mathematical Physics
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