Electron capture from atomic hydrogen by multiply charged ions in low energy collisions

Cross section measurements and calculations are presented for electron capture by multiply charged ions from atomic hydrogen. The measurements were made for Nq+, Oq+ and Neq+ projectiles in the energy range 2 q to 10 q keV. Fair agreement is obtained with most earlier measurements when available. Molecular calculations, including translation factors, have been carried out for the case of fully stripped projectiles with charges between 5 and 10 as well as for O 6+(1s2) and N5+(1s2) impact The role of the interaction between the core and active electron is discussed Good agreement is obtained between theory and experiment. It is worth noting that both experimental and theoretical results do not show any oscillation as a function of the projectile charge in the energy range covered by the experiments.