Ab initio calculation of electron-capture cross sections in H++BeH collisions

I. Rabadán, L. Méndez, J. W. Gao, Y. Wu, and J. G. Wang
Phys. Rev. A 96, 032714 – Published 19 September 2017

Abstract

We present calculations of electron-capture cross sections in collisions of H+ with BeH molecules in the energy range 25eV<E<10keV. We discuss the validity of the models employed to describe nonadiabatic ion-molecule collisions, specifically the eikonal approximation, the Franck-Condon approximation, and the isotropic approximation to obtain orientation-averaged cross sections, which is based on the infinite-order sudden approximation. The calculation using the Franck-Condon approximation leads to a total electron-capture cross section that is practically independent of the collision energy with a value of around 25Å2. The calculations using the more accurate sudden vibrational approximation indicate that the Franck-Condon approximation overestimates the electron-capture cross section by at most 20%. At E<1 keV, the main product of the electron-capture process is the formation of BeH+(21Σ+)+H(1s). At higher energies, the cross sections for formation of BeH+(21Σ+)+H(1s) and BeH+(13Σ+)+H(1s) are practically identical. The Coriolis couplings are particularly relevant to the mechanism of this reaction, which precludes the merging of semiclassical (including Coriolis couplings) and quantal results (neglecting Coriolis couplings) in the energy range of the present calculation.

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  • Received 29 May 2017
  • Revised 31 July 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.032714

©2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

I. Rabadán1, L. Méndez1, J. W. Gao2,3, Y. Wu2, and J. G. Wang2

  • 1Laboratorio Asociado al CIEMAT de Física Atómica y Molecular en Plasmas de Fusión, Departamento de Química, módulo 13, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
  • 2Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, 100088 Beijing, China
  • 3Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, 75005 Paris, France

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Vol. 96, Iss. 3 — September 2017

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