Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Excitation states of projectiles moving through solids

Conference ·
OSTI ID:4419650
From 3rd international conference on atomic collisions in solids; Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA (23 Sep 1973). X-ray spectral measurements of S, Cl, and Ar atoms moving in solid carbon targets are used to extract the equilibrium distribution of vacancies in the valence and L-shells of the projectiles. It is found that the state of excitation is much higher than the mean charge measured after the projectile has left the solid. A simple model is used to deduce the expected final charge state distribution, and these are compared to thin foil measurements. The results support the Betz-Grodzins model for ions moving in solids. (auth)
Research Organization:
California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
NSA Number:
NSA-29-008660
OSTI ID:
4419650
Report Number(s):
UCRL--75094; CONF-730958--1
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
English