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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 367-370 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms |
Volume | 98 |
Issue number | 1-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 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.