EDP Sciences, The European Physical Journal Applied Physics, 2(56), p. 24010
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The rate coefficient of the ternary association reaction has been measured at a temperature of 11 K using a 22-pole ion trap. The measurements were made over the density range of 0.5-10 × 1013 cm-3 using normal hydrogen (with 1/4 p-H2 and 3/4 o-H2). We measured an apparent binary reaction rate coefficient and from the obtained linear dependence on the hydrogen density we calculated the ternary reaction rate coefficient k3 = (3 ± 1) × 10-29 cm6 s-1. From the measured data we can deduce that there exists very slow radiative association with the rate coefficient of the order of kr ≲ 3 × 10-16 cm3 s-1 at 11 K.