Coherence properties of the projectile’s beam: The missing piece of the C6+ + He ionization puzzle

Abstract

SynopsisWe analyze the influence of the coherence of the projectile’s beam in scattering phenomena. We focus our study in the ionization of He by C6+ projectiles at 100 MeV/amu. Our calculations, which had been previously performed for only the scattering and perpendicular collision planes and within the First Born approximation, were repeated for an ampler set of collision planes and with a more refined model. We obtain a very good agreement with the experimental results.