Abstract

Projectile time-of-flight spectra and the number of emitted electrons have been determined in coincidence for grazing scattering of slow (0.45 keV/u) multiply charged Ar ions from an atomically clean and flat LiF(001) surface. By relating projectile energy loss to kinetic electron emission we were able to determine contributions from potential electron emission even in the presence of a considerable number of kinetically excited electrons. Our results suggest a practically complete use of the available potential energy for electron emission during grazing scattering in sharp contrast to findings for the normal incidence case.

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