Total electron loss, charge transfer, and ionization in proton-hydrogen collisions at 10–100 keV

A three-dimensional lattice solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for low quantum states (n<~3) is combined with classical trajectory Monte Carlo results for high quantum states (n>~4) to predict total electron loss and total charge-transfer cross sections for proton collisions with atomic hydrogen at intermediate energies. The total charge-transfer cross sections range from 5% above to 10% below the furnace target measurements of McClure [Phys. Rev. 148, 47 (1966)], while the total electron-loss cross sections range from 5% to 15% above the pulsed crossed-beams measurements of Shah, Elliot, and Gilbody [J. Phys. B 20, 3501 (1987)]. The calculation of ionization as a difference between electron loss and charge transfer leads to theoretical ionization cross sections that are 10% to 35% larger than the crossed-beams measurements of Shah and Gilbody [J. Phys. B 14, 2361 (1981)] and Shah, Elliott, and Gilbody [J. Phys. B 20, 2481 (1987)].