Relativistic Spectroscopy of Plasma Embedded Li-like Systems with the Screening Effects in the Two-body Debye Potentials

Abstract

The spectroscopic properties of Li atom and Li-like Ca and Ti ions in the plasma environment are investigated using a relativistic coupled-cluster (RCC) method. Assuming the plasma is of low density and very hot, we consider the Debye model with two approximations by accounting the screening effects: (i) in the nuclear potential alone and (ii) in both the nuclear and the electron-electron interaction potentials. First, the calculations for the energies and the lifetimes of the atomic states are carried out for the plasma free systems in order to check their accuracies following which they are investigated in the plasma environment. It is observed that screenings in the electron-electron interaction potentials stabilize the systems more than the case when the screenings present only in the nuclear potential. Similarly, the earlier predicted blue and red shifts in the $Δn=0$ and $Δn \ne 0$ transition lines (with the principal quantum number $n$) of the Li-like ions change significantly in the case (ii) approximation. The level-crossings among the energy levels are observed for the large screening effects which seem to be prominent in the states of higher orbital angular momentum. The lifetimes of many low-lying states and the relative line-intensities of the allowed transitions are estimated considering different plasma screening strengths.