Dynamic screening and energy loss of antiprotons colliding with excited Al clusters

Abstract

We use time-dependent density functional theory to calculate the energy loss of an antiproton colliding with a small Al cluster previously excited. The velocity of the antiproton is such that non-linear effects in the electronic response of the Al cluster are relevant. We obtain that an antiproton penetrating an excited cluster transfers less energy to the cluster than an antiproton penetrating a ground state cluster. We quantify this difference and analyze it in terms of the cluster excitation spectrum.

23 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods B as a proceeding of the IISC-19 Workshop on Inelastic Ion-Surface Collisions

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