Neonization method for stopping, mean excitation energy, straggling, and for total and differential ionization cross sections of CH4, NH3, H2O and FH by impact of heavy projectiles

Abstract

We propose a neonization method to deal with molecules composed by hydrides of the second row of the periodic table of elements: CH4, NH3, OH2 and FH. This method describes these ten-electron molecules as dressed atoms in a pseudo-spherical potential. We test it by covering most of the inelastic collisional magnitudes of experimental interest: ionization cross sections (total, single and double differential), stopping power, energy-loss straggling and mean excitation energy. To this end, the neonization method has been treated with different collisional formalisms, such as the continuum-distorted-wave–eikonal-initial-state, the first order Born, and the shell-wise local plasma approximations. We show that the present model reproduces the different empirical values with high reliability in the intermediate to high-energy region. We also include the expansion of the spherical wave functions in terms of Slater-type orbitals and the analytic expression for the spherical potentials. This makes it possible in the future to tackle present neonization strategy with other collisional models.