State selective electron capture and excitation in proton collisions with Be

Abstract

An ab initio study of charge exchange and excitation processes in collisions between protons and beryllium atoms is presented. State selective cross sections are obtained for collision energies between 2.5 × 10−7 and 16 keV/amu, using both quantum and semiclassical treatments. A very large isotopic dependence of the charge exchange cross section is found at energies below 0.6 eV/amu.