RECOMBINATION OF LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONS WITH MULTICHARGED IONS VIA CHAOTIC MULTIPLY-EXCITED STATES: A STATISTICAL APPROACH G. F. Gribakin, A. A. Gribakina, and V. V. Flambaum Electron capture into multiply-excited chaotic states of the compound ion produces strong enhancement (100 times for Au25+) of recombination rates of many-electron multicharged ions with low-energy electrons. The high density of such states ensures a ``quasicontinuum'' energy dependence of the recombination rate, in agreement with recent experimental findings.