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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<jats:p>We present a theoretical investigation of reactive and non-reactive collisions of Li and Rb atoms with <jats:inline-formula>
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</jats:inline-formula> systems, we show that the associative electronic detachment reaction is inefficient but that it occurs with a large rate for collisions involving excited states of either Li/Rb or <jats:inline-formula>
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</jats:inline-formula> in hybrid ion-atom traps. The effect of micromotion is taken into account by considering Tsallis distributions of collision energies. We show that the translational cooling occurs much more rapidly than rotational cooling and that the presence of excited atoms leads to losses of anions on a timescale comparable to that of rotational cooling.</jats:p>