Ion pair collisions are an important process in many astrophysical environments. We present ab initio calculations of highly excited states of C2+ and identify the ion pair channel C2+/C−. We use these results to interpret recent experiments on carbon cluster dissociation.
Launoy, T., Vaeck, N., Urbain, X., Liévin, J., Loreau, J., Béroff, K., & Chabot, M. (2015). On the reactivity of ion pairs into different diatomic systems. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Print), 635(2), 22018. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/635/2/022018 (Original work published 2015)