Dissociation and electron capture of H2+ ions in collisions with He, Ne and Ar atoms

Dissociated fragments, neutral particles and ionized target atoms resulting from the collisions of H2+ ions with He, Ne and Ar atoms are measured in the energy range from 4 to 16 keV as a function of the target thickness, and the cross sections of electron capture and dissociation with and without target ionization are derived by solving a set of the rate equations. Most of the cross section values are found crudely independent of the ion energy, and the processes are commonly treated in a framework of classical one electron model. (author)