https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00048-2
Interplay of charge exchange and projectile excitation in the stopping of swift heavy ions
1
Physics Department, University of Southern Denmark, 5230
Odense M, Denmark
2
Institute of High Current Electronics,
Akademichesky 4, 634 055 Tomsk, Russia
Received:
23
October
2002
Revised:
1
December
2002
Published online:
18
February
2003
The electronic energy loss of a dressed ion penetrating through matter is commonly considered as being synonymous with the sum of the excitation energies of the target and the projectile in atomic collisions undergone during the passage. We show that this is not justified in projectile-ionizing collisions and discuss some consequences.
PACS: 34.50.Bw – Energy loss and stopping power / 34.50.Fa – Electronic excitation and ionization of atoms (including beam-foil excitation and ionization) / 34.70.+e – Charge transfer / 52.40.Mj – Particle beam interactions in plasmas
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2003
