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Comment on "Dynamics of transfer ionization in fast ion-atom collisions"

Atomic Physics 2015-06-15 v2

Abstract

We inspect the first-order electron-electron capture scenario for transfer ionization that has been recently formulated by Voitkiv et al. (Phys. Rev. A 86, 012709 (2012) and references therein). Using the multichannel scattering theory for many-body systems with Coulomb interactions, we show that this scenario is just a part of the well-studied Oppenheimer-Brinkmann-Kramers approximation. Accurate numerical calculations in this approximation for the proton-helium transfer ionization reaction exhibit no appreciable manifestation of the claimed mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.1304.3045,
  title  = {Comment on "Dynamics of transfer ionization in fast ion-atom collisions"},
  author = {Yu. V. Popov and V. L. Shablov and K. A. Kouzakov and A. G. Galstyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.3045},
  year   = {2015}
}

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