Measurements of Close Encounters in H-on-H, H-on-H2, and H--on-H Collisions
Abstract
Close encounters are studied in the collision of hydrogen atoms with hydrogen atoms at incident energies of 2 to 60 keV. Those incident particles which are scattered through an angle of 1.5° or 3° are examined to find the fraction P+1 which have lost an electron in the encounter, the fraction P0 which have remained neutral, and the fraction P-1 which have captured an electron. The P-1 component, which is a measure of the reaction H + H --> H- + H+, is everywhere low, at these scattering angles, never exceeding 4%, but it does show an interesting oscillatory structure. This quantity has a maximum evident at 7.5 keV and suggested maxima at 50 and 3.5 keV. Similar measurements are made for the H-on-H2 collision, and these show a peak in the H- production at 12 keV. For the H- -on-H collision, measurements of P+1, P0, and P-1 are made where the fast particle is scattered through 1.2°. No oscillatory structure is seen in this case for incident energies between 2 and 50 keV.
- Publication:
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Physical Review
- Pub Date:
- February 1968
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRev.166.68
- Bibcode:
- 1968PhRv..166...68K