We study alkali atom-halogen molecule charge-transfer collisions.
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We measure in eV molecular beam experiments
the relative differential cross sections for chemi-ionisation of the systems K + Br2 at initial relative kinetic energies of 10.35 and 6.9 eV, K + I at 11.15 eV and Li + Br2 at 6.25 eV.
Then we try to explain the measurements on the process
K + Br2 -> K+ + (Br ... Br-)
with simple classical atom-atom model, using the impact-parameter approximation, an isotropic intermolecular potential and neglecting the internal states of the X2 molecule
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both qualitatively
and quantitatively by comparing them to calculations based on the model
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