Electron impact K‐shell ionization cross sections of atoms at relativistic energies

Abstract

AbstractWe propose an extension of the modified simplified‐improved‐binary‐encounter dipole (MRIBED) model (Uddin et al., Phys Rev A 2005, 72, 032715), incorporating both the ionic and relativistic corrections, to investigate the K‐shell ionization of atomic targets with atomic numbers Z = 1 − 92 for incident energies up to 2 GeV. We also revisit our earlier models, MBELL (Haque et al. Phys Rev A 2006, 73, 012708) and MKLV (Uddin et al. Eur Phys J D 2006, 37, 361), for the K‐shell ionization at these ultra‐relativistic energies. The results from our extended version of MRIBED, MBELL, and MKLV models agree well with the experimental findings. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2008