Nonperturbative Treatment of Excitation and Ionization inU92++U91+Collisions at 1 GeV/amu

Abstract
Inner-shell excitation and ionization processes in relativistic collisions of very heavy ions are treated by a nonperturbative method for the first time. The time-dependent Dirac equation is solved by a finite-difference method for the scattering of U92+ on U91+ at a value of Elab corresponding to 1 GeV/amu and zero impact parameter. The K-shell-ionization probabilities are compared with those resulting from first-order perturbation theory.

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