Abstract
We investigate the contribution of interatomic Coulombic decay induced by ion impact in neon and argon dimers (Ne and Ar) to the production of low-energy electrons. Our experiments cover a broad range of perturbation strengths and reaction channels. We use 11.37 MeV/u S, 0.125 MeV/u He, 0.1625 MeV/u He, and 0.150 MeV/u He as projectiles and study ionization, single and double electron transfer to the projectile, as well as projectile electron loss processes. The application of a COLTRIMS reaction microscope enables us to retrieve the three-dimensional momentum vectors of the ion pairs of the fragmenting dimer into Ne-Ne and Ar-Ar ( 1, 2, 3) in coincidence with at least one emitted electron.
1 More- Received 21 July 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.042707
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