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Zatsarinny and Bartschat publish breakthrough article on ionization-excitation of helium

Oleg Zatsarinny
Oleg Zatsarinny

Senior research scholar, Oleg Zatsarinny, and Klaus Bartschat, Ellis and Nelle Levitt Professor of Physics, published a Fast Track Communication in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, a part of IOPscience produced by the British Institute of Physics. The paper, entitled “Benchmark calculations of total cross sections for ionization-excitation of helium” proposes a solution to an over 30-year old problem and was judged by the referee as “an outstanding manuscript that takes the field to the next level.”

Zatsarinny earned his master’s degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1977 and his doctorate from Vilnius State University in 1985. He also earned a senior researcher degree from the Ukrainian Academy of Science in 2000. At Drake University, he teaches courses in computational physics, quantum mechanics, atomic physics, and electrodynamics. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers since coming to Drake in 2003.

Klaus Bartschat
Klaus Bartschat

Bartschat is an expert in atomic and computational physics. He conducts research with many groups worldwide, including Drake students, and works on a number of projects funded by the National Science Foundation. He has co-authored more than 300 manuscripts in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, published two books, Polarization, Alignment and Orientation in Atomic Collisions, and Computational Atomic Physics, and several review articles.

Visit http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-4075/47/6/061001/ to see Zatsarinny and Bartschat’s research article, including their invited video abstract.

For more information, contact Klaus Bartschat at klaus.bartschat@drake.edu.

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics covers the study of atoms, ions, molecules and clusters, and their structure and interactions with particles, photons or fields.