Elastic angular differential cross sections for quasi-oneelectron collision systems at intermediate energies: (Na⁺, Li⁺)+H and (Mg⁺, Be⁺)+He

Authors

• J. L. Peacher, University of Missouri–Rolla, Rolla, Missouri
• E. Redd, University of Missouri–Rolla, Rolla, Missouri
• D. G. Seely, University of Missouri–Rolla, Rolla, Missouri
• Timothy J. Gay, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
• D. M. Blakenship, University of Missouri–Rolla, Rolla, Missouri
• J. T. Park, University of Missouri–Rolla, Rolla, Missouri

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

February 1989

Comments

Published in Phys. Rev. A 39, 1760 - 1766 (1989) [Issue 4 – February 1989]. ©1989 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

Measurements of elastic angular differential cross sections have been carried out for four quasi-one-electron collision systems at intermediate energies. Data are presented for Na⁺+H collisions at laboratory energies of 35.94, 51.75, 63.89, and 143.75 keV, for Li⁺+H collisions at energies of 19.44 and 43.75 keV, for Mg⁺+He collisions at energies of 30, 66.7, and 150 keV, and for Be⁺+He collisions at an energy of 56.25 keV. The highest energy in each case corresponds to a projectile velocity of (1/2 a.u. Born and Eikonal calculations, in which we model the projectile ion as a heavy structureless ion of charge +1e, are also presented. Our model calculations are in fair agreement with the experimental data over the range of measured scattering angles.