Energy Loss of Excited Slow Ions in Electron Gas
Marek Moneta
Uniwersytet Łódzki, Katedra Fizyki Ciała Stałego/Pomorska 149, 90-236 Łódź, Poland
Received: June 7, 1999; in final form September 3, 1999
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The electronic energy loss and the straggling of the energy loss of the degenerate electron gas for excited H*-, He*-, He**-, and Li*-like ions were calculated. The results were compared with the corresponding characteristics for ions kept in the ground state. The linear response theory was used. The ion was described by the Hartree-Fock-Slater formalism and the medium by the dielectric function. The stopping and straggling effective charges Zef for the energy loss were analysed and they were found to differ from each other and to depend on the one-electron radius rs, on the ion atomic number Zi, and on the number of electrons Ni carried by the ion.
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.96.429
PACS numbers: 61.80.Lj, 71.10.Ca, 34.50.Bw