Journal of Atomic, Molecular, Condensate & Nano Physics
Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 19–30, 2014
RGN Publications
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Atomic Data for He-like Tungsten Research Article
Sunny Aggarwal
1
, A.K. Singh
2
and Man Mohan
3
1,3
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
2
Department of Physics, D.D.U. College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110015, India
Corresponding authors:
1
sunny.kmc87@gmail.com,
3
drmanmohan.05@gmail.com
Abstract. Atomic data on high-Z materials are important for impurity diagnostics due to its possible
use in the next generation fusion devices including astrophysics. For this purpose, in the present
paper, energies, lifetimes and wave-function compositions have been computed for all level of 1s
2
, 1s2l,
1s3l, 1s4l, 1s5l and 1s6l in highly charged He-like tungsten ion (W LXXIII). Also, we have presented
the transition wavelengths, oscillator strengths, transition probabilities and line strengths for the
electric dipole (E1) transitions from the levels 1s
2
, 1s2s and 1s2p. Our reported results have been
obtained using the fully relativistic GRASP code including the correlations within the n = 6 complex.
The validity of the method is assessed through the comparison with the other results previously
published. The excellent agreement observed between our new GRASP results and those obtained
using different approaches confirm the accuracy of our results.
Keywords. Atomic data; Atomic processes
PACS. 32.70Cs
Received: December 31, 2013 Accepted: April 20, 2014
Copyright © 2014 Sunny Aggarwal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original work is properly cited.
1. Introduction
Reliable atomic data for the tungsten ions, such as emission line wavelengths and transition
probabilities, are of crucial importance both for the diagnostic purposes and the modelling of
plasma in fusion reactors. Indeed, because of its high melting point, low tritium retention and
erosion rate under plasma loading (see e.g. Pospieszczyk 2006), tungsten will be used as a plasma
facing material in the diverter region (Matthews et al. (2009), Skinner (2008, 2009), Hawryluk
et al. (2009)) in the development of future tokamaks, such as ITER. Additionally, tungsten is of
interest in astrophysics (Hensberge et al. (1986)). Therefore, wavelengths and transition rates
in various ionization stages of tungsten must be determined with high confidence from the