Theoretical investigation of He2⁺-Ar collisions in the energy range of 4-300 keV/amu

The time-dependent density functional theory is applied to investigate the charge transfer and electron-loss processes during He2⁺-Ar collisions in the energy range of 4-300 keV/amu. A coordinate space translation technique is employed to focus our investigation on some certain space of interest such as the regions around the projectile or target. It is shown that both charge transfer and electron-loss processes are important in the considered energy range. One-electron-capture processes dominate charge transfer with the cross sections one to two orders of magnitude larger than two-electron-capture cross sections. The ionization cross sections decrease with increasing the number of ionized electrons. The calculated cross sections are in excellent agreement with available experimental and theoretical results. Evolution of electron density is also presented to explore interactions between the electrons as well as the correlation between the projectile and target during the collisions.