Strongly enhanced backward emission of electrons in transfer and ionization

  • M. Schulz
  • , X. Wang
  • , M. Gundmundsson
  • , K. Schneider
  • , Aditya Kelkar
  • , A. B. Voitkiv
  • , B. Najjari
  • , M. Schöffler
  • , L. Ph. H. Schmidt
  • , R. Dörner
  • , J. Ullrich
  • , R. Moshammer
  • , D. Fischer

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Abstract

We studied three-dimensional angular distributions and longitudinal momentum spectra of electrons ejected in transfer plus ionization (TI), i.e., the ejection of one and the capture of a second target electron, for ion-helium collisions. We observe a pronounced structure strongly focused opposite to the projectile beam direction, which we associate with a new correlated TI mechanism proposed recently. This process contributes significantly to the total cross sections over a broad range of perturbations η, even at η as large as 0.5, where uncorrelated TI mechanisms were thought to be dominant. © 2012 American Physical Society.
Original languageEnglish
Article number043202
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume108
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 26 2012

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