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Title: Evidence of strong projectile-target-core interaction in single ionization of neon by electron impact

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000 (China)

The momentum distributions of recoil ions were measured in the single ionization of neon by electron impact at incident energies between 80 and 2300 eV. It was found that there are a noticeable number of recoil ions carrying large momenta, and the relative contributions of these ions becomes more pronounced with the further decrease of incident electron energy. These observed behaviors indicate that there is a strong projectile-target-core interaction in the single-ionization reaction. By comparing our results with those of electron-neon elastic scattering, we concluded that the elastic scattering of the projectile electron on the target core plays an important role at low and intermediate collision energies.

OSTI ID:
21528646
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 82, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.052702; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English