Strong isotope effects on the charge transfer in slow collisions of He2+ with atomic hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium

Autor: Stolterfoht, N., Cabrera-Trujillo, R., Oehrn, Y., Deumens, E., Hoekstra, R., Sabin, J. R.
Přispěvatelé: Research unit Astroparticle Physics
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2007
Zdroj: Physical Review Letters, 99(10):103201. AMER PHYSICAL SOC
ISSN: 0031-9007
Popis: Probabilities and cross sections for charge transfer by He2+ impact on atomic hydrogen (H), deuterium (D), and tritium (T) at low collision energies are calculated. The results are obtained using an ab initio theory, which solves the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. For the H target, excellent agreement is achieved between the present and previous results. Differences by orders of magnitude are observed between the cross sections for H, D, and T. A method is introduced to separate the contributions of charge-transfer mechanisms due to radial and rotational coupling. The large differences observed for H, D, and T are attributed to isotope effects in the rotational coupling mechanism.
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