Electron capture from molecular hydrogen by metastable Sn2+* Ions

Over a wide and partly overlapping energy range, the single-electron capture cross-sections for collisions of metastable (Formula presented.) ((Formula presented.)) ions with (Formula presented.) molecules were measured (0.1–10 keV) and calculated (0.3–1000 keV). The semi-classical calculations use...

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Autores: Bijlsma, Klaas, de Wit, Emiel, Assink, Luc, Oltra, Lamberto, Méndez Ambrosio, Luis, Rabadán Romero, Ismanuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/718609
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/718609
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atoms12020009
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:electron capture
EUV source
ion–molecule collisions
laser-produced plasma
molecular hydrogen
Sn
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Sumario:Over a wide and partly overlapping energy range, the single-electron capture cross-sections for collisions of metastable (Formula presented.) ((Formula presented.)) ions with (Formula presented.) molecules were measured (0.1–10 keV) and calculated (0.3–1000 keV). The semi-classical calculations use a close-coupling method on a basis of electronic wavefunctions of the (SnH2)2+ system. The experimental cross-sections were extracted from double collisions in a crossed-beam experiment of (Formula presented.) with (Formula presented.). The measured capture cross-sections for (Formula presented.) show good agreement with the calculations between 2 and 10 keV, but increase toward lower energies, whereas the calculations decrease. Additional Landau–Zener calculations were performed and show that the inclusion of spin-orbit splitting cannot explain the large cross-sections at the lowest energies which we now assume to be likely due to vibrational effects in the molecular hydrogen target