Heavy N+ ion transfer in doubly charged N2Ar van der Waals cluster

XL Zhu, XQ Hu, SC Yan, YG Peng, WT Feng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Van der Waals clusters are weakly bound atomic/molecular systems and are an important
medium for understanding micro-environmental chemical phenomena in bio-systems. The …

Interatomic Coulombic decay as a new source of low energy electrons in slow ion-dimer collisions

W Iskandar, J Matsumoto, A Leredde, X Fléchard… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We provide the experimental evidence that the single electron capture process in slow
collisions between O 3+ ions and neon dimer targets leads to an unexpected production of …

Role of a neighbor ion in the fragmentation dynamics of covalent molecules

A Méry, AN Agnihotri, J Douady, X Fléchard, B Gervais… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Fragmentation of molecular nitrogen dimers (N 2) 2 induced by collision with low energy 90
keV Ar 9+ ions is studied to evidence the influence of a molecular environment on the …

Interatomic relaxation processes induced in neon dimers by electron-impact ionization

S Yan, P Zhang, V Stumpf, K Gokhberg, XC Zhang… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We report an experimental observation of the interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) and
radiative charge-transfer (RCT) processes in a Ne dimer (e, 2 e) following a 380-eV electron …

Charge-symmetric and-asymmetric fragmentation dynamics of argon dimers in slow Ar8+–Ar2 collisions

MAKA Siddiki, K Kumar, H Singh… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present an experimental study of multiple-electron capture-induced fragmentation
dynamics of Ar 2 m+(4≤ m≤ 7) dimer ions in 4 keV/u Ar 8+–Ar 2 collisions. The fragment …

Coulomb over-the-barrier Monte Carlo simulation to probe ion-dimer collision dynamics

W Iskandar, X Fléchard, J Matsumoto, A Leredde… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of primary and postcollision
mechanisms involved when colliding low-energy multiply charged ions with van der Waals …

Velocity and charge-state dependence on the Coulomb explosion of N2, under the impact of highly-charged ions at intermediate velocities

A Khan, LC Tribedi, D Misra - … of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the comprehensive measurement of the Coulomb explosion of the double and
triple ionization of N 2 in collisions with slow highly-charged ions. The experiments are …

COLTRIMS in Collision Physics

A Cassimi, X Fléchard, B Gervais, A Méry… - Advances in Atomic …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The COLd Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy (COLTRIMS) has
revolutionized Collision Physics in the 90s. By introducing coincidence and imaging …

Investigations of electron removal processes in slow He and He-Ne collisions indicate high Interatomic Coulombic Decay yield

D Starko, T Kirchner - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20411, 2024 - arxiv.org
We implement an independent-atom and independent-electron model to investigate the
collision systems of He $^{2+} $ and He $^{+} $ ion projectiles impinging on a neon dimer …

Orientation effect in Ar dimer fragmentation by highly charged ion impact

XL Zhu, S Yan, WT Feng, X Ma, XY Chuai… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The fragmentation experiment on doubly and triply ionized Ar dimers is carried out using 1.0
MeV Ne 8+ impact, focusing on the angular distribution of Ar+ and Ar 2+ ions. For the …