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The origin of the widely observed enhancement of rates for electron-ion recombination at very low energies is still unknown. We investigated the recombination of Au25+ with free electrons in a merged-beams experiment at the UNILAC accelerator of the GSI in Darmstadt. At E rel= 0 eV we found an enormous enhancement factor of 365 compared to the theory of radiative recombination. An increase of the electron density by a factor of 10 had not much influence on the measured rate coefficient.
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Hoffknecht, A., Uwira, O., Frank, A. et al. Recombination of Au25+ with free electrons at low energies. Hyperfine Interactions 114, 257–261 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012651311728
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