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Theoretical spectroscopic studies of the atomic transitions and lifetimes of low-lying states in Ti IV

Subhasish Mandal1,5, Gopal Dixit2, B K Sahoo3, R K Chaudhuri4 and Sonjoy Majumder2

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The astrophysically important electric quadrupole (E2) and magnetic dipole (M1) transitions for the low-lying states of triply ionized titanium (Ti IV) are calculated very accurately using a state-of-the-art all-order many-body theory called coupled cluster (CC) method in the relativistic framework. Different many-body correlations of the CC theory has been estimated by studying the core and valence electron excitations to the unoccupied states. The calculated excitation energies of different states are in excellent agreement with the measurements. Also, we compare our calculated electric dipole (E1) amplitudes of few transitions with recent many-body calculations by others. The lifetimes of the low-lying states of Ti IV have been estimated and long lifetime is found for the first excited 3d2D5/2 state, which suggested that Ti IV may be one of the useful candidates for many fundamental studies of physics. Most of the forbidden transition results reported here are not available in the literature, to the best of our knowledge.


PACS

32.70.Cs Oscillator strengths, lifetimes, transition moments

31.15.bw Coupled-cluster theory

31.30.J- Relativistic and quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects in atoms, molecules, and ions

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Computational physics

Dates

Issue 5 (14 March 2008)

Received 7 September 2007, in final form 17 January 2008

Published 26 February 2008



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