Energy transfer in electron-Rydberg collisions (revisited): Substantial implications for recent ultracold plasmas |
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| Hossein Sadeghpour | |
| Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA | |
| In this talk, I profile extensive CTMC calculations of electron-impact induced transitions and ionization between highly-excited Rydberg states, where discrepancies with accepted rate constants are present. Such deviations, I will show, have dramatic consequences for the interpretation of recent ultracold plasmas, including a recent three-body recombination experiment. |