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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 104, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.032813
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2017-05655, RGPIN-2019-06305]
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Energy loss in collisions of charged projectiles with many-electron systems is studied using time-dependent density functional theory, with an exact expression derived and applied to antiproton-atom collisions at intermediate and high energies. Detailed comparisons are provided for different collisions, showing reasonable agreement with one-electron and two-electron calculations for atomic hydrogen and helium, and with experimental results in some cases.
Energy loss in collisions of charged projectiles with many-electron systems can be dealt with in time-dependent density functional theory by invoking Ehrenfest's theorem for the time evolution of expectation values of observables. We derive an exact expression for the evaluation of energy loss for systems described in a target reference frame, which is a functional of the electron density. Using an approximation scheme, we then apply the expression to antiproton-atom collisions at intermediate and high energies within the framework of the basis generator method. The calculations are performed within the semiclassical approximation for the nuclear motion, and a straight-line trajectory is employed. The energy loss is evaluated from an expectation value of the time derivative of the time-dependent projectile potential, and it avoids the problem of identifying the excited and ionized many-electron contributions in the many-electron wave function. There is also no need to invoke the independent-event model, since the calculations are performed within the framework of the independent-electron mean-field model. Detailed comparisons are provided for net ionization and total energy loss of antiprotons colliding with hydrogen, helium, neon, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. Reasonable agreement is found with the results from one-electron and two-electron calculations for atomic hydrogen and helium, and with experiment in the latter case. For the (p) over bar -Ne system at intermediate collision energies, we find discrepancies with previous work that included only single-electron transitions. The sequence of results for C, N, O, and Ne allows one to paint a consistent picture that awaits experimental verification.
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