AUGER EMISSION FOLLOWING RESONANT TRANSFER EXCITATION IN COLLISIONS OF F-8+ WITH H-2

We have calculated differential cross sections for the process of resonant transfer excitation followed by Auger emission (RTEA) in collisions of H-like fluorine with H2. At energies below the KL limit, our results for the emission of KLL, KLM, and KLN Auger electrons agree qualitatively with the experimental results of Schulz et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1738 (1989)] for transfer excitation (TE) that have been normalized to our KLL RTEA cross section at 48 Ry. Together with our RTEA results for KLO emission, this implies that RTE is the dominant TE mechanism at these energies for all n values measured so far although uncorrelated transfer excitation may be important at high energies. The absolute cross sections of Schulz et al. are about a factor of 12 smaller than theory. © 1990 The American Physical Society.