Universal temperature dependence of the ion-neutral-neutral three-body recombination rate

Jesús Pérez-Ríos and Chris H. Greene
Phys. Rev. A 98, 062707 – Published 12 December 2018

Abstract

A classical approach based on hyperspherical coordinates is used to derive a first-principles formulation of the the ion-neutral-neutral three-body recombination rate, A+ + A + A A2+ + A, in terms of the mass of the atom and its polarizability. The robustness and predictive power of our approach have been checked in comparison with experimental data of rare gas three-body recombination as well as previous theoretical frameworks, which need one or two atom-dependent fitting parameters. Thus, our approach is general and applicable to any ion-atom-atom system.

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  • Received 28 September 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.062707

©2018 American Physical Society

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Atomic, Molecular & Optical

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Jesús Pérez-Ríos1 and Chris H. Greene2

  • 1School of Natural Sciences and Technology, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico PR00778, USA
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue Unviversity, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 USA

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Vol. 98, Iss. 6 — December 2018

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