TARGET RECOIL EFFECTS FOR INNER-SHELL IONIZATION IN ION-ATOM COLLISIONS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Calculations are reported that show the effect of target recoil on K-shell ionization in ion-atom collisions. Target recoil effects are significant in low-energy and small impact parameter collisions, for which Coulomb deflection and corrections to the first Born approximation (increased binding) are also quite important. The non-inertial recoil term that arises when the hamiltonian is written in target-centered coordinates has been discussed in the literature already by several authors. Our contribution is to include this finite target mass effect in our large basis coupled-state calculations, which then incorporate effects of recoil, Coulomb deflection, and target orbital perturbations and couplings in a consistent and accurate manner. Results for ionization probability as a function of impact parameter are presented and compared to experiment for several collision energies, projectiles (of different mass and charge), and targets. Copyright 1983 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

published proceedings

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE

author list (cited authors)

  • FORD, A. L., & READING, J. F.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • FORD, AL||READING, JF

publication date

  • January 1983