Hydrogen and helium charge exchange collisions at kiloelectronvolt energies: an electron-nuclear dynamics review

The electron transfer processes that occur during the collision of ions with atomic and molecular systems are of fundamental importance in the understanding of neutralization, fragmentation and bond rearrangement. In this work we present a review of the actual state in charge exchange processes in the few electronvolts up to several kiloelectronvolts within the electron-nuclear dynamics approach. We present the effects of single and double electron capture on stopping power, molecular fragmentation, differential and total cross sections. For the case of α particles, we present the effects of the target mass (target isotopic effect) when colliding with H, D and T atoms, together with the question of control of charge transfer by means of a short, intense laser pulse.