Relativistic distorted-wave collision strengths for the 49 optically allowed transitions with in the 67 N-like ions with

Relativistic distorted-wave collision strengths have been calculated for the 49 Δ n = 0 optically allowed transitions with n = 2 in the 67 N-like ions with nuclear charge number Z in the range 26 ≤ Z ≤ 92 . The calculations were made for the four final, or scattered, electron energies E ′ = 0.20 , 0.42, 0.80, and 1.40, where E ′ is in units of Z eff 2 Ry with Z eff = Z − 5 . In the present calculations, an improved “top-up” method, which employs relativistic plane waves, was used to obtain the high partial-wave contribution for each transition, in contrast to the partial-relativistic Coulomb–Bethe approximation used in the previous work by Zhang and Sampson [H.L. Zhang and D.H. Sampson, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 72 (1999) 153]. In that earlier work, collision strengths were also provided for N-like ions, but for a more comprehensive data set consisting of all possible 105 Δ n = 0 transitions, six scattered energies and the 81 ions with Z in the range 12 ≤ Z ≤ 92 . The collision strengths covered in the present work should be more accurate than the corresponding data given by Zhang and Sampson [H.L. Zhang and D.H. Sampson, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 72 (1999) 153] and are presented here to replace those earlier results.