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Published on: July 27, 2018
Near-threshold photoionization of hydrogenlike uranium studied in ion-atom collisions via the time-reversed process
T Stöhlker1, X Ma, T Ludziejewski
1Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.
Abstract:
Radiative electron capture, the time-reversed photoionization process occurring in ion-atom collisions, provides presently the only access to photoionization studies for very highly charged ions. By applying the deceleration mode of the ESR storage ring, we studied this process in low-energy collisions of bare uranium ions with low- Z target atoms. This technique allows us to extend the current information about photoionization to much lower energies than those accessible for neutral heavy elements in the direct reaction channel. The results prove that for high- Z systems, higher-order multipole contributions and magnetic corrections persist even at energies close to the threshold.
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