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| Author(s): |
Roberto Linares
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2009-08-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Roberto Vicencotto Ribas;
Raphael Liguori Neto;
Eduardo Chaves Montenegro;
Paulo Roberto Rela;
Vito Roberto Vanin
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| Advisor: | Roberto Vicencotto Ribas |
| Abstract | |
The energy loss of ions in materials is an important issue not only because of its direct applications on material analysis techniques, but also for the understanding of the interactions. Accurate knowledge of heavy ion stopping power at low energies is necessary in materials science as well as in basic physics, e. g. in the Doppler Shift Attenuation Method (DSAM). In this technique the knowledge of stopping power is used to determine the timescale for the decaying nuclei while slowing down in a heavy substrate, usually Au or Pb. Nevertheless, the stopping power of solids for heavy ions is still poorly known. Regarding to low energies, this is especially true due to additional difficulties arising from a complicated dependence of the projectile charge state and its istantaneous velocity in the medium. Since theoretical models are unable to produce reliable quantitative predictions, most models currently in use are of semiempirical nature. The main aim of this work is to present new experimental data in the energy range 100-500 keV/u for Ti, V, Cr, Co and Ni ions slowing down in Au and Ge, and Ti and Cr ions slowing down in Pb. Experimental data for Ti, V, Cr ions were obtained using the elastic recoil technique, where a primary beam is scattered by heavy ions from a thin target (100µg/cm²). The scattered primary beam produces recoiling atoms of the target at low energies and at a given direction, where it is placed the stoppers. Experimental data for Co and Ni ions were obtained using a ToF-E apparatus (Time of Flight - Energy detection system) which allows measuring stopping over a continuous energy range. To produce a beam of Co, for instance, with broad energy range its monoenergetic beam is scattered away by a Au substract. Our experimental data were compared to TB and UCA theories and ZBL and NS semiempical models. Although there is an overall agreement between experiment and theory for Ti, V and Cr ions, the experimental stopping power for Ni in Au, for instance, is about 2 times greater than the ZBL prediction. (AU) | |