Single-electron capture in ion-ion collisions

Abstract

The prior versions of the three-body boundary-corrected first Born approximation (CB1-3B) and the three-body boundary-corrected continuum intermediate states method (BCIS-3B) are applied to calculate the state-selective and state-summed total cross sections for single-electron capture from hydrogen-like ion targets (He+, Li2+) by fast completely stripped projectiles (H+, He2+, Li3+). All calculations are carried out for single-electron capture into arbitrary n l m final states of the projectiles, up to n = 4. The contributions from higher n shells are included using the Oppenheimer n?3 scaling law. The present results are found to be in satisfactory agreement with the available experimental data.