Spin-selected velocity dependence of the associative ionization cross section in Na(3p)+Na(3p) collisions over the collision energy range from 2.4 to 290 meV

1 January 1987

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 35 (2) , 934-937
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.35.934

Abstract

We report new results on the direct measurement of the associative ionization (AI) cross section in collisions between velocity-selected and spin-oriented Na(3p) atoms. Improvements in the Doppler-shift velocity-selection technique permit measurement over an energy range spanning more than two orders of magnitude from subthermal to suprathermal regions. Spin orientations, parallel and antiparallel, enable determination of the excitation function (velocity dependence of the AI cross section) for the separate singlet and triplet manifolds of

{Na}_{2}

states contributing to the AI process.

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