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Volume 13: Pages 473-479, 2000

Electron Correlation in Electron‐Impact Ionization of Hydrogen‐Like Atoms

Yong‐Ki Kim

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899‐8423 U.S.A.

The role of the correlation between the incident and target electrons in electron‐impact ionization of hydrogen‐like ions is discussed using a simple, analytic cross‐section model.

Keywords: electron‐impact ionization, hydrogen‐like ions, relativistic cross section

Received: May 31, 2000; Published online: December 15, 2008