Published December 14, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Classical description of threshold effects in ion-atom ionization collisions

  • 1. Centro Atomico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, 8400 S C de Bariloche, Rio Negro (Argentina)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Dynamique des Ions, Atomes et Molecules, Universite P et M Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, T12-B75, F-75 252 Paris Cedex 05 (France)
  • 3. Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Description

We employ a three-body classical trajectory Monte Carlo (CTMC) method to calculate the recoil-ion momentum distribution at its kinematic threshold in ion-atom ionization collisions. We analyse how this threshold is intertwined by dynamical constraints to the electron capture to the continuum cusp in the electron double differential cross section. We compare these calculations with those from a full quantum-mechanical description and explore how these structures depend on the interactions among the three particles in the final state. (author)

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Available online at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ISSN 1361-6455) http://www.iop.org/

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Journal Title
Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Journal Volume
33
Journal Issue
23
Journal Page Range
p. 5343-5355
ISSN
0953-4075

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