Employing the 'crossed-beams' technique, electron-impact ionization cross sections for the single-ionization of Wq+ ions in charge states q=1...10 have been measured. The cross sections for the ionization of ions in charge states q>or=5 show significant contributions below the ground-state threshold caused by the ionization of ions in excited, long-lived metastable states in the parent ion beam. In the case of W6+, the measured cross section is completely dominated by metastable contributions. For ions in charge states q=3...7, excitation-autoionization from the ground state as well as from excited, metastable states contributes strongly to the cross sections. This results in a strong underestimation of the measured cross sections by the semiempirical Lotz formula in the energy range between the ionization threshold and the cross section maximum.
For the first time absolute cross sections for electron impact ionization of the hydrogen-like ions B 4+ , C 5+ , N 6+ and O 7+ at electron energies from below threshold up to about 6 keV have been measured using the crossed-beams technique. All measured cross sections are in very good agreement with available distorted-wave exchange calculations and the semiempirical Lotz formula. The behaviour of the classically scaled cross sections along the hydrogen isoelectronic sequence is discussed. A recently developed scaling technique allows us to predict all non-relativistic cross sections along the isoelectronic sequence on an absolute scale.
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