Inelastic Heavy Particle Collisions Involving the Crossing of Potential Energy Curves V - Charge Transfer from Neutral Atoms to Doubly and Triply Charged Ions

Abstract

The Landau-Zener formula for the transition probability arising from the pseudo-crossing of potential energy curves is used to investigate charge transfer processes of the type A + B3+ → A+ + B2+ involving neutral helium atoms and triply charged ions of Be, Li, Al and Mg.