Crossed-molecular-beam study of the kinematics and dynamics of charge-transfer collisions

Abstract

Using a crossed‐molecular‐beam apparatus, the low energy product ions formed in a variety of resonant and near‐resonant charge‐transfer collisions at incident ion energies of 200 eV have been examined. Observation of the translational energy and angular distributions of these low energy product ions confirms that charge transfer takes place at large impact parameters with near‐zero momentum transfer.