Photoionization of helium atom embedded in classical non-ideal plasma at high non-relativistic photon energies

Abstract

The effects of the non-ideality (NI) of classical plasmas on the photoionization of helium atoms at high non-relativistic photon energies are investigated within the framework of the dipole approximation. Screened interaction in non-ideal plasmas is represented by an effective potential, deduced from a solution of Bogolyubov's hierarchy equations on discarding the effects of quantum degeneracy. A highly correlated wave function consisting of 715 terms for the ground state of helium has been used to evaluate the dipole matrix element. Changes in the asymptotic cross sections of single, double, and total photoionizations due to varying NI of plasmas have been investigated in detail. Particular emphasis is made to study the changes in the asymptotic ratio of the double-to-single photoionization cross section caused by the variation of non-ideality parameter in a wide range. It is found that increasing plasma NI makes the feasibility of occurrence of double photoionization to broaden.