Study of the enhancement of the electron-ion recombination rate at very low energies

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: FMBI960853

Project closed

Start date 1 May 1996

End date 30 April 1998

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Stockholms Universitet
Sweden

Objective

Electron-ion collisions are fundamental processes which play an important role whenever ionized matter occurs. Several merged-beams experiments reported an enhanced recombination rate beyond theoretical expectations based on the theory of radiative recombination. Experiments are proposed to clarify this situation. Three-body recombination, one additional contribution to the recombination rate, should be measured to separate this process. For low transverse beam temperatures corresponding to 10 meV this process becomes comparable to radiative recombination. Furtheron dielectronic recombination resonance near zero energy which also contribute to the recombination rate should be measured. This work will also stimulate theoretical investigations in exact calculations of resonance energies. The ion storage ring CRYRING with its cooler, providing an electron beam with lowest beam temperatures, will be the most suitable tool for this work.

Programme(s)

• FP4-TMR - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0302 - Post-doctoral research training grants
• TP03 - Atomic and Molecular Physics

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

Stockholms Universitet

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 100 44 Stockholm ; Sweden
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

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Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Total cost: No data