TY - EJOUR
AU - Hoffknecht, A.
AU - Brandau, C.
AU - Bartsch, T.
AU - Böhme, C.
AU - Knopp, H.
AU - Schippers, S.
AU - Müller, A.
AU - Kozhuharov, C.
AU - Beckert, K.
AU - Bosch, F.
AU - Franzke, B.
AU - Krämer, A.
AU - Mokler, P.
AU - Nolden, F.
AU - Steck, M.
AU - Stachura, Z.
AU - Stöhlker, Th.
TI - Recombination of bare Bi<sup>83+</sup> ions with electrons
JO - Physical review / A
VL - 63
IS - 1
SN - 1050-2947
CY - College Park, Md.
PB - APS
M1 - GSI-2013-04774
SP - 012702
PY - 2000
N1 - 12 pages, 14 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. A, see also http://www.gsi.de/ap/ and http://www.strz.uni-giessen.de/~k3
AB - Electron-ion recombination of completely stripped Bi83+ was investigated at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) of the GSI in Darmstadt. It was the first experiment of this kind with a bare ion heavier than argon. Absolute recombination rate coefficients have been measured for relative energies between ions and electrons from 0 up to about 125 eV. In the energy range from 15 meV to 125 eV a very good agreement is found between the experimental result and theory for radiative recombination (RR). However, below 15 meV the experimental rate increasingly exceeds the RR calculation and at Erel = 0 eV it is a factor of 5.2 above the expected value. For further investigation of this enhancement phenomenon the electron density in the interaction region was set to 1.6E6/cm3, 3.2E6/cm3 and 4.7E6/cm3. This variation had no significant influence on the recombination rate. An additional variation of the magnetic guiding field of the electrons from 70 mT to 150 mT in steps of 1 mT resulted in periodic oscillations of the rate which are accompanied by considerable changes of the transverse electron temperature.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)25 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.63.012702
UR - https://repository.gsi.de/record/54051
ER -