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State-Diagnosed Ion-Neutral Collisions leading to Charge Transfer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

D. Mathur
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay 400 005, India
C. Badrinathan
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay 400 005, India
F. A. Rajgara
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay 400 005, India
U. T. Raheja
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay 400 005, India

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A significant reservoir of potential energy in hot astrophysical plasmas exists in multiply charged positive ions. Inelastic collisional processes involving such ions govern the ionization and energy balance in such plasmas. Although inelastic processes such as, charge transfer, have been widely investigated, there remains a paucity of knowledge about charge changing processes where both reactions and products are state-diagnosed. We have applied high-resolution translational energy gain/loss spectroscopy to investigate state-diagnosed collisions between Kr2+ and H2 leading to single electron capture into specific electronic states of Kr+ at collision energies in the range 1–6 keV.

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Basic Studies
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