Systematic study of charge transfer in collisions of highly-charged low-velocity rare-gas ions with rare-gases

Thesis/Dissertation · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5978677

Justiniano, E L.B.

A systematic study of single and multiple electron capture, transfer ionization and direct ionization in collisions of low energy highly charged (LEHQ rare gas) Ar ions withes (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe) and of LEHQ rare gas (Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe) ions with He has been performed for a range of projectile charge states q=2 x 13 and at collision velocities of, typically, 10/sup 6/ x 10/sup 7/ cm/s. The LEHQ ions were obtained from a recently developed secondary recoil ion source that uses the collisions of fast (ca 1 MeV/amu) ions with gaseous targets to produce slow highly charged ions. Cross sections for transfer ionization and direct ionization as well as normal charge capture were measured. Direct ionization was found to be negligibly small in this range of collision energies. Transfer ionization was found to be important, representing as much as 50% of the observed single capture. The experimental results were compared to several theoretical models and a simple Landau-Zener calculation was performed for the case of He targets.

• Research Organization: Kansas State Univ., Manhattan (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5978677
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ARGON
ION-ATOM COLLISIONS
ARGON IONS
ELECTRON CAPTURE
HELIUM
KRYPTON
KRYPTON IONS
NEON
NEON IONS
XENON
XENON IONS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
IONIZATION
LANDAU-ZENER FORMULA
ATOM COLLISIONS
CAPTURE
CHARGED PARTICLES
COLLISIONS
DATA
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
GASES
INFORMATION
ION COLLISIONS
IONS
NONMETALS
NUMERICAL DATA
RARE GASES
640304* - Atomic
Molecular & Chemical Physics- Collision Phenomena