Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals

Time-dependent density-functional theory is used to calculate the energy loss of antiprotons and protons traversing metal clusters of variable size. We find that the effective energy loss per unit path length inside the cluster shows no significant cluster size effects over the wide range of project...

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Authors: Quijada Van den Berghe, Marina; Borisov, Andrei G.; Nagy, Istvan; Díez Muiño, Ricardo; Echenique Landiribar, Pedro Miguel
Format: Article
Publication date:2007
Country:España
Institution:Universidad del País Vasco
Repository:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/71482
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71482
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author Quijada Van den Berghe, Marina
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Nagy, Istvan
Díez Muiño, Ricardo
Echenique Landiribar, Pedro Miguel
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Díez Muiño, Ricardo
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description Time-dependent density-functional theory is used to calculate the energy loss of antiprotons and protons traversing metal clusters of variable size. We find that the effective energy loss per unit path length inside the cluster shows no significant cluster size effects over the wide range of projectile velocities studied. This allows us to compare the calculated stopping power with the experimental values for a solid metal target. Excellent agreement between the theoretical results and recent experimental data is found for velocities below the inner-shell excitation threshold. We thus present a nonperturbative quantum-mechanical approach to obtain the energy loss of charges in solids.
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spelling Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals Quijada Van den Berghe, Marina Borisov, Andrei G. Nagy, Istvan Díez Muiño, Ricardo Echenique Landiribar, Pedro Miguel Time-dependent density-functional theory is used to calculate the energy loss of antiprotons and protons traversing metal clusters of variable size. We find that the effective energy loss per unit path length inside the cluster shows no significant cluster size effects over the wide range of projectile velocities studied. This allows us to compare the calculated stopping power with the experimental values for a solid metal target. Excellent agreement between the theoretical results and recent experimental data is found for velocities below the inner-shell excitation threshold. We thus present a nonperturbative quantum-mechanical approach to obtain the energy loss of charges in solids. Financial support by the Basque Departamento de Educación, Universidades e Investigación, the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Grant No. 9/UPV 00206.215-13639/2001), the Spanish MEC (Grant No. FIS2004-06490-C03-00), and the EU Network of Excellence NANOQUANTA (Grant No. NMP4-CT-2004-500198) is acknowledged. The work of I.N. was partially supported by the Hungarian OTKA (Grant Nos. T046868 and T049571). APS http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71482
spellingShingle Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals
Quijada Van den Berghe, Marina
title Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals
title_full Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals
title_fullStr Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals
title_full_unstemmed Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals
title_short Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals
title_sort Time-dependent density functional calculation of the stopping power for protons and antiprotons in metals
url http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71482