Importance of post collision interactions for charge transfer process

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Abstract

Recently experimental fully differential cross sections (FDCS) have been reported for double capture, single capture and transfer excitation in proton helium collisions. In case of double capture, the proton captures both of the electrons from helium and leaves the collision as a H- ion. For single capture, the proton captures one electron from helium and leaves the other electron in the ground state. Transfer excitation is similar to single capture except the target is excited to an excited state. Recently experiments performed for proton energies ranging from 25keV to 300keV. We introduce here a theoretical model for charge transfer processes which is fully quantum mechanical and takes all post collision interactions (PCI) between the particles into account exactly. Numerically, this requires a full nine-dimensional integral which is computationally expensive. The theoretical results will be compared with absolute experimental measurements.

*Work supported by the NSF under grant 1068237 and the NSF XSEDE

Authors

  • Uttam Chowdhury

    • Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Allison Harris

    • Henderson State University
  • Jerry Peacher

    • Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Don Madison

    • Missouri University of Science and Technology