Charge transfer from rare gas atoms to Kr+
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Rare Gas
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The cross section for electron capture by Kr+ ions from rare gas atoms between 30 and 120 keV is found to be in good agreement with previous measurements where these exist, except for neon. The Rapp–Francis model gives an acceptable fit to the energy dependence of these and higher energy data but is too large by a factor of about five. In contrast the Landau–Zener model predictions are too large for helium and neon and too small for the heavier targets unless metastable states of krypton with large polarizabilities dominate the cross section.