Research Letter

On the Appearance of a Cooper Minimum in the Photoionization Cross Sections of the Plasma-Embedded Li Atom

Table 1

Ground state energy ( in a.u.) and photoelectron energy (ε in a.u.) at Cooper minimum of Li and Na for different Debye screening length (a.u.).

LiNa

2.0No bound state2.0No bound state
3.00.101097−0.0132823.00.295830−0.006226
4.00.079121−0.0360194.00.235561−0.025245
5.00.059276−0.0560435.00.204692−0. 043900
6.00.042996−0.0723806.00.183378−0.059747
7.00.029767−0.0856337.00.167208−0.072873
8.00.018962−0.0964918.00.154713−0.083763
9.00.009959−0.1055059.00.144056−0.092881
10.00.002425−0.11308910.00.135604−0.100596
11.0No Min.−0.11954720.00.093342−0.140253
20.0No Min.−0.17847150.00.064678−0.168256
100.0No Min.−0.188122100.00.054388−0.178355
200.0No Min.−0.193084200.00.049244−0.183555
No Min.−0.1981410.044099−0.188857