Effect of the nuclear charge of a fast structural ion on its internal effective stopping in collisions with atoms

Abstract

The energy losses of fast structural ions in collisions with atoms have been considered in the eikonal approximation. The structural ions are ions consisting of a nucleus and a certain number of electrons bound to it. The effect of nuclear charge Z of the ion on its effective deceleration κ^(p) (energy losses associated with excitation of only intrinsic ion shells) has been analyzed. It is shown that the allowance for the interaction of an atom with the ion nucleus for Z_aZ/v > 1, where Z_a is the charge of the atomic nucleus and v is the velocity of collisions in atomic units, considerably affects the value of κ^(p), which generally necessitates taking into account nonperturbatively the effect of both charges Z_a and Z on κ^(p).