• Accepted Paper

Transfer ionization of 2p electrons in slow He2+-Ne collisions

Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Till Jahnke, Markus S. Schöffler, Stephan Fritzsche, and Reinhard Dörner

Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 9 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/m632-drl9

Abstract

Using cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy, we measured the electron velocity distribution with respect to the nuclear scattering plane for the transfer ionization reaction 8.5keV/uHe2++Ne→He++Ne2++e− and were able to separate events corresponding to the Ne2+(1s22s22p4) final states 3P2,1,0, 1D2 and 1S0 via energy conservation analysis. Our comparison of the present data across the three final states, as well as with previous measurements using a helium target, shows that the angular momentum of the removed electrons has only a minor influence on the momentum distribution. In addition to direct ionization, two-step processes also occur, in which highly excited states of Ne+ are first populated and subsequently autoionize. These processes lead to the emission of electrons with energies as low as a few hundred meV. For the 1D2 final state, we observed a distinct emission line located at an electron energy of 0.31eV and tentatively assigned it to Ne+1s22s22p4(1S0)4f. This line is barely visible in photoionization experiments and has not been assigned so far.

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