TY - JOUR A1 - Reinhardt, Joachim A1 - Müller, Berndt A1 - Greiner, Walter A1 - Soff, Gerhard T1 - Role of multistep processes in heavy-ion inner-shell excitations T2 - Physical review letters N2 - This Letter discusses inner-shell excitation in collisions of very heavy ions (Z1+Z2≳140) in the framework of the quasimolecular model. The importance of multistep excitations and of coupling between continuum states is demonstrated. The 1sσ vacancy probabilities resulting from coupled-channels calculations exceed perturbation theory by a factor 3-5, thus giving good agreement with recent experimental results. Y1 - 2006 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2503 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-29067 UR - http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v43/p1307 VL - 43 IS - 18 SP - 1307 EP - 1310 ER -