Molecular treatment of electron capture in collisions of N sup 4+ ions with H atoms

Journal Article · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992 · Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.45.267· OSTI ID:5080678

Shimakura, N ^[1]; Itoh, M ^[2]; Kimura, M ^[3]

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1. General Education Department, Niigata University, Niigata 950-21 (Japan)
2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Niigata 950-21 (Japan)
3. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States) Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251 (United States)

Partial and total cross sections of electron-capture processes in collision of N{sup 4+} ions with H atoms are calculated in the collision energy range from 1 eV/amu to 10 keV/amu. Semiclassical and quantum-mechanical molecular-orbital methods with electron translation factors are employed. Two-electron processes are also considered, but they are found to make small contributions at all collision energies. The dominant electron-capture channels are found to be the N{sup 3+}(3{ital p}) state at energies above 300 eV/amu and the N{sup 3+}(3{ital d}) state at energies lower than 300 eV/amu. Three experiments that observed only total cross sections have been reported for this system. The agreement of the present calculation with these measurements is excellent at all energies. In particular, an oscillation observed in the experiment of Huq, Havener, and Phaneuf (Phys. Rev. A 40, 1811 (1989)) is reproduced by our calculation in the energy range 10--300 eV, and the origin of the oscillation is discussed.

• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5080678
• Journal Information: Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States), Vol. 45:1; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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