Abstract
An expanding laser-produced plasma has been used as a source of a beam of slow, highly charged carbon ions. Bursts of collimated and energy-selected Cq+ ions were directed through an atomic hydrogen gas target and charge analyzed by time-of-flight methods. Total electron-capture cross sections are reported for Cq++H collisions (q=3,4,5,6) at energies ranging from 11 to 387 eV/amu and are generally in accord with heretofore untested low-energy theoretical calculations.