Rydberg atoms and electron transfer to the continuum spectra.

Abstract

Recently Vager etal.1 reported that for fast-ion bombardment of foil (or gas) targets, projectile Rydberg atoms and convoy electrons produced by electron transfer to the continuum (ETC) emerge with comparable probabilities; consequently a substantial contribution from field ionization of these Rydberg atoms in the deflector field of the spectrometer used may have to be considered in the discussion of experimental ETC spectra.