Dielectronic recombination of He-like to C-like iodine ions

KLL dielectronic recombination resonances, where a free electron is captured into the L shell and at the same time a K shell electron is excited into the L shell, have been measured for open shell iodine ions by measuring the detected yield of escaping ions of various charge states and modeling the charge balance in an electron beam ion trap. In the modeling, the escape from the trap and multiple charge exchange were considered. Extracted ions were used to measure the charge balance in the trap. The different charge states were clearly separated, which along with the correction for artifacts connected with ion escape and multiple charge exchange made the open shell highly charged ion measurements of this type possible for the first time. From the measured spectra resonant strengths were obtained. The results were 4.273910−19 cm2 eV, 2.912610−19 cm2 eV, 2.392210−19 cm2 eV, 1.491410−19 cm2 eV and 7.647610−20 cm2 eV for the iodine ions from He-like to C-like, respectively.