https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2010-10144-9
Stopping of swift hydrogen diclusters: oscillator model
1
Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
2
Institut für Experimentalphysik, Johannes Kepler Universität, 4040 Linz-Auhof, Austria
Corresponding author: a sigmund@ifk.sdu.dk
Received:
17
March
2010
Revised:
31
August
2010
Published online:
3
December
2010
Enhanced stopping of swift hydrogen diclusters has been analysed theoretically. The target has been modeled as a
gas of harmonic-oscillator atoms of variable density. This model predicts a proximity effect, i.e., enhanced
stopping at high beam energy, and an oscillatory behavior at low energy. Both features get less pronounced with
increasing target density due to increased screening of the ion-target interaction by polarization of the
medium. Static screening by electrons accompanying the cluster likewise reduces the proximity effect. The
Barkas-Andersen correction has been estimated in the 
limit. Our findings are in contrast with
measurements on SiO2 [S.M. Shubeita et al.,
Phys. Rev. B 77, 115327 (2008)] which showed a pronounced step in the energy dependence of the proximity effect.
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