Fast electrons from slow atomic collisions

1 April 1992

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 45 (7) , 5286-5288
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.45.5286

Abstract

We report observations of extremely energetic electrons produced in collisions between keV

{He}^{+}

and

{Ar}^{+}

and different solid surfaces, with energies up to approximately 40% of the center-of-mass energy. This emission can result from the decay of many-electron excitations produced in nearly head-on collisions.

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