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Article
Evidence for Target Outer-Shell Excitation Mediated by Electron Correlation in Single-Electron-Capture Collisions of Slow He²⁺ Ions with Ar Atoms
Physical Review A
Abstract
We have performed kinematically complete experiments on single-electron capture in slow He2+-Ar collisions. Besides the pure capture to the He+ (n = 2) level, capture into the deep He+ ( n= 1) state with simultaneous excitation of another target electron is also observed. In contrast to the pure capture, the total cross section for this two-electron transition decreases with increasing collision energy, and its angular-differential cross section exhibits a much slighter slope. We take these observations as evidence for electron capture mediated by electron-electron interactions.
Department(s)
Physics
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 2020 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
10-28-2020
Publication Date
28 Oct 2020
Disciplines
Citation Information
Z. Y. Song, X. C. Wang, Z. W. Li, K. L. Han, et al.. "Evidence for Target Outer-Shell Excitation Mediated by Electron Correlation in Single-Electron-Capture Collisions of Slow He²⁺ Ions with Ar Atoms" Physical Review A Vol. 102 Iss. 4 (2020) ISSN: 2469-9926 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daniel-fischer/84/
This work is partly supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No. 2017YFA0402300 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grant No. 11675279.