Electron-electron interaction in projectile ionization

R. Dörner, V. Mergel, R. Ali, U. Buck, C. L. Cocke, K. Froschauer, O. Jagutzki, S. Lencinas, W. E. Meyerhof, S. Nüttgens, R. E. Olson, H. Schmidt-Böcking, L. Spielberger, K. Tökesi, J. Ullrich, M. Unverzagt, W. Wu

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Abstract

For simultaneous projectile and target ionisation in He+He collisions the momentum distribution of the singly and doubly charged recoil ions has been measured. A new cold target recoil ion momentum spectrometer with a momentum resolution of ±0.13 a.u., based on a precooled supersonic He gas jet, has been used. The experimental doubly differential cross section shows two prominent structures which can be attributed to the two center electron-electron interaction and the nucleus-electron interaction. The contribution due to the electron-electron interaction is found to be negligible at 0.5 MeV impact energy and to be dominant at 2 MeV. The two center electron-electron interaction contributes much less to target double than to single ionisation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)367-370
Number of pages4
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume98
Issue number1-4
DOIs
StatePublished - May 3 1995

Funding

The work was financially supportedb y DFG, BMFT and DOE grant 82ER53128. One of us (W.E.M.) was supportedb y NSF grantsI NT-9013087and PHY-9019293. R.A., W.W. and C.L.C. acknowledge financial support from Max Planck Forschungspreiso f the Humboldt foundation which madet heir visit to Frankfurt possible. We are thankful for very helpful discussionsw ith, and for calculations by E.C. Montenegro,W . Fritsch and S. Manson.

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