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Published April 1, 1962 | public
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Range of heavy ions in solids

Abstract

The ranges of N, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe ions in Be, B, C, and Al have been measured to ±10% for incident ion energy 50-500 kev. A monoenergetic ion beam from an electrostatic accelerator strikes a thick target of the absorber, and the penetration depth is determined by a momentum analysis of monoenergetic protons elastically scattered from the target and the embedded atoms. An expression relating the penetration depth to the actual path length is derived. A linear range-energy behavior is found for Ar, Kr, and Xe ions; for N and Ne ions dE/dX increases with ion energy. The experimental ranges are 20% shorter than theoretical values based on energy loss by elastic nuclear collisions. By including electronic contributions to the stopping process, good agreement with experiment is achieved.

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©1962 The American Physical Society. Received 20 November 1961. We wish to thank Professor J. Lindhard for sending us his range-energy relation prior to publication, Dr. J.C. Overley for the boron targets used in this experiment, and Dr. R. K. Bardin for helpful discussions of proton scattering analysis. Supported in part by the joint program of the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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