Abstract
In relativistic collisions between bare high-Z ions and low-Z target atoms, electron capture into the ground and excited projectile states is almost completely caused by the time-reserved photoelectric effect, i.e. radiative electron capture. A study of the REC process into bare high-Z can therefore be utilized for the investigation of the photoelectric effect. In this paper we present data for the inverse of the two-step photo-ionization process, which were obtained by measuring the angular distribution of the Lyα1 (2p3/2 → 1s1/2) de-excitation photons induced by REC into the 2p3/2 state of initially bare high-Z ions. The anisotropic emission, revealed by the experiments, demonstrates that the population of the magnetic substates by REC in fast collisions deviates strongly from the statistical one, and that it must lead to a strongly polarized Lyα1-radiation.
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