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Effective strength of the electron-electron interaction in simultaneous projectile and target ionization
E C Montenegro1, A C F Santos, W S Melo
1Departamento de Física, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 38071, Rio de Janeiro 22452-970, Brazil.
Physical Review Letters
|January 22, 2002
Abstract:
The determination of the right balance between the strong-field interaction of the screened target nucleus and the two-center electron-electron interaction has been controversial since the early attempts to describe the stripping of light, swift ions, by heavy targets. In this work, we find a region of influence for the electron-electron contribution which clearly indicates that this interaction is an essential contribution to the stripping process for both light and heavy targets.