Abstract:
Experimental measurement of the three-dimensional momentum of the recoil ion He
+ produced by single-electron capture of 0.64 keV/u N
+ with He using the reaction microscopy imaging spectrometer with a two-fold coincident method, and the state-selective cross-sections and angular distributions of an electron captured into different quantum states of the projectile ions have been obtained. The experimental results show that the ground state projectile N
+(
3P) captures a 1
s electron from the He target mainly to the 2
p shell, and the contribution to the higher shells can also be observed; the metastable N
+(
5S) captures a 1
s electron from the He target mainly to the 2
s shell, with almost no contribution to higher shells. The experimental results are interpreted qualitatively using the potential energy curves of the NHe
+ quasimolecular ion, but the reaction window predictions of the molecular Coulomb over-barrier model differ significantly from the experiments. During the capture of the target electron into the 2
s orbital by the metastable projectile N
+(
5S), a clear oscillatory structure appears in the angular differential cross-section, which is likely to result from Demkov-type transitions.