https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050040
Unexpected reduction of the spin-exchange cross-section for fast 3He+ ions incident on Rb atoms
1
Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University,
Mihogaoka 10-1, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
2
Department of Chemistry, Niigata University,
Ikarashi Nino-cho 8050, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
3
Department of Physics, Konan University, Okamoto 8-9-1,
Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8501, Japan
4
Kobe Tokiwa College, Ohtani-cho 2-6-2,
Nagata-ku, Kobe 653-0838, Japan
Corresponding authors: a arimoto@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp - b shima@shimakura.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp - c yonehara@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp - d yamagata@center.konan-u.ac.jp - e tanaka@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp
Received:
11
September
1999
Revised:
28
December
1999
Published online: 15 March 2000
The spin-exchange cross-section, 
,
was measured for a 6.33 keV/amu 3He
ion
incident on a polarized Rb atom.
The result is
cm2,
which is unexpectedly an order of magnitude smaller than
the theoretical value
cm2 evaluated by the
semiclassical impact parameter method
assuming formation of a single molecular state.
PACS: 34.50.-s – Scattering of atoms, molecules, and ions / 34.10.+x – General theories and models of atomic and molecular collisions and interactions (including statistical theories, transition state, stochastic and trajectory models, etc.) / 31.15.Rh – Valence bond calculations
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2000
