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The trielectronic recombination of an In+ (4d 105s 2 1 S 0) ion in collisions with slow electrons, including the two-electron excitation of the 5s2 core of the ion with the simultaneous capture of the triply excited 5p 3 intermediate autoionizing state with its subsequent radiative stabilization 5p 3 → 5s5p 2 + hν has been detected and experimentally examined for the first time. The maximum effective cross section of trielectronic recombination is 1.6 × 10−16 cm2, which is comparable to the effective cross sections for both dielectronic recombination and electron excitation of the In+ ion.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Gomonai, Yu.I. Hutych, E.V. Ovcharenko, A.I. Imre, 2011, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 94, No. 6, pp. 456–459.
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Gomonai, A.N., Hutych, Y.I., Ovcharenko, E.V. et al. Detection of trielectronic recombination of In+ ion. Jetp Lett. 94, 422–424 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364011180068
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