Basic Atomic Interactions Of Accelerated Heavy Ions In Matter Atomic Interactions Of Heavy Ions Introduction

Characteristics of an ion beam, penetrating through matter, are changed due to interactions with media particles: the beam energy becomes lower, energy spread and angular scattering broader etc. Both incident beam ions and target particles undergo various atomic processes, which change their radiative and collisional properties. In this chapter, macro (energy loss, angular straggling, range) and micro characteristics (charge-changing processes in gaseous and solid targets), describing collisions of ion beams with different targets, are discussed. Atomic processes between incident ions and plasma particles are discussed in Chap. 7.