Theoretical calculations of X-ray spectra of Au plasma

Abstract

By using a detailed configuration accounting method in the collisional radiative equilibrium model, and Cowans relativistic atomic structure code with respect to ionic averaged configurations and Hartree-Fock-Slater potential, we solve the rate equations for populations of all ionic and level populations of all excited states, in which main consider main atomic dynamic processes in a non-local thermodynamic equilibrium plasma can be considered, thereby obtaining the ionic populations and energy level populations and the ionic charge stage distribution and the average charge for Au. We also simulate and calculate the X-ray emission spectra of Au 5f—3d transition arrays. The calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental data for a well-characterized highly ionized Au plasma.