Theoretical Studies of Dielectronic Recombination Rate Coefficients for Re³⁰⁺ Ions

Dielectronic recombination (DR) rate coefficients of complex ions are very important in some application research, such as extreme ultraviolet lithography and nuclear fusion. Based on the fully relativistic configuration interaction method, theoretical calculations are carried out to research the DR processes, in which Re³⁰⁺ ions in the ground state 4p⁶4d⁹ to (4p⁶4d⁹)^-1nln'l'(n=4~6, n'=4~23). Influence of excitation and radiation channels, configuration interaction, the effect of decays to autoionizing levels possibly followed by radiative cascades (DAC) are analyzed. The contributions through 4p subshell excitations to the total rate coefficient are 28.2%~44.9% in the whole temperature region. Hence the contributions from inner-shell electron excitation are very important. The contributions from the DAC transitions increase smoothly with the increasing temperature and are about 12.9% at 50 000 eV. The contributions of DAC can not be neglected. By means of compared total DR rate coefficients to radiative recombination rate coefficients and three-body recombination rate coefficients, it shows that the maximum value of the radiation recombination rate coefficient is 22.6% of the DR rate coefficient and the maximum value of the three-body recombination rate coefficient is only 0.3% of the DR rate coefficient. The total DR rate coefficient is greater than either the radiative recombination or three-body recombination coefficients in the whole temperature range. The corresponding DR process is very important for plasma ionization distribution, population level and spectrum simulation. In addition to facilitate the application, the total DR rate coefficients for the ground state and the first excited state are fitted to an empirical formula. These results will provide the reference for the further analyses of rhenium laser plasma spectrum simulation and the complex structures ions DR process.