Ion energy losses during the charge-exchange process

Abstract

A method for calculating ion energy losses during the charge-exchange process is proposed. It is established that the contribution of the charge-exchange process to inelastic energy losses for ions with nuclear charges of Z = 5–10 is significant and reaches 15% for certain ions in the energy interval of 30 to 100 keV/nucleon. If a gas target is replaced with a solid one, the ion energy losses during the charge-exchange processes decrease.