Radiative recombination (RR) reactions are studied extensively both experimentally and theoretically for highly charged heavy ions. One of the main goals is to study the relativistic, quantum electrodynamical (QED) effects, and electron-electron correlations in the time-reversed photoionization process in the strong field of heavy ions. By now extensive tabulations of the total and differential cross sections for RR of an electron with bare ions with atomic charge 1 ≤ Z ≤ 112 have been published. There exists the only calculation of RR for the He-like uranium ion with regard to the interelectronic-interaction correction of the first order in 1/Z. The purpose of our work was systematic investigation of RR for heavy multi-electron ions. To study the influence of interelectronic interaction on the RR process, precision relativistic calculations of the total and differential cross sections for emitted polarized photons were performed in the framework of the Dirac-Fock method. The Breit magnetic interaction between electrons and QED corrections associated with vacuum polarization, the self-energy, and so on, were included.

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