Samira Louaifi Hamaili

Quantum-mechanical elastic and transport cross sections for Mg+-He collisions: from ultracold sympathetic cooling to room-temperature ion mobility.

Although Mg+-He is a benchmark system for sympathetic cooling of trapped ions and for ionic mobility measurements, its collisional dynamics has never been characterized: previous studies addressed only the underlying electronic structure. We close this gap with a fully quantum-mechanical, partial-wave study of elastic...