Analytical ionization cross sections for atomic collisions

General analytical expressions for cross sections for direct ionization in atom–atom collisions are evaluated using the classical impulse approximation. The approach is also applied to ion–atom and molecule–molecule interactions. The overall accuracy of the obtained cross sections in a broad range of energy is better, when compared with existing measurements for many collision systems, than accuracy of other analytical predictions available in literature.

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