Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1683295 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 2011 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

Equilibrium charge state fractions have been measured for 3–7 MeV lithium, boron and carbon ions passing through thin foils of copper, silver, and gold. The current results are combined with other low-Z ion data from the literature to give the relative influence of different target materials on charge exchange processes. The mean charge of the projectile, the functional form of the charge state distribution, and the charge state distribution width are parameters used to examine the effects of the electronic structure on charge exchange for various target-projectile combinations. Projectile shell structure is found to have a large influence on the widths of the charge state.

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