Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract
The dissociative recombination of
has been an intriguing problem for more than half a century. The early experiments on
during the first 20 years were carried out without mass analysis in decaying plasma afterglows, and thus the measured rates pertained to an uncontrolled mixture of
and impurity ions. When mass analysis was used, the rate coefficient was determined to be an uneventful value of about 10
−7
cm
3
s
−1
, a very common rate coefficient for many molecular ions. But this was not the end of the story, not even the beginning of the end; it marked only the end of the beginning. The story I will tell in this article started about 10 years ago, when the dissociative recombination of
was approaching its deepest crisis. Today, owing to an extensive experimental and theoretical effort, the state of affairs has reached a historically unique level of harmony, although there still remains many things to sort out.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
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