Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions

A projectile traveling inside a metal can excite bulk plasmons (collective oscillations of the electron gas) that eventually decay. The two main decay mechanisms are the excitation of a Bloch electron and the excitation of a pair of interacting free electrons. In recent publications we developed a m...

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spelling paper:paper_10502947_v71_n2_p_Bocan2025-07-30T18:38:12Z Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions Free energy Mathematical models Projectiles Bloch electron Electron-aluminum collisions Plasmon decay mechanisms Electron scattering A projectile traveling inside a metal can excite bulk plasmons (collective oscillations of the electron gas) that eventually decay. The two main decay mechanisms are the excitation of a Bloch electron and the excitation of a pair of interacting free electrons. In recent publications we developed a model to study these mechanisms for proton impact. In this Brief Report, we extend that model in order to consider an electron as the projectile and deal with the numerical difficulties this projectile choice brings along. © 2005 The American Physical Society. 2005 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_10502947_v71_n2_p_Bocan http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_10502947_v71_n2_p_Bocan
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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repository_str R-134
collection Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA)
topic Free energy
Mathematical models
Projectiles
Bloch electron
Electron-aluminum collisions
Plasmon decay mechanisms
Electron scattering
spellingShingle Free energy
Mathematical models
Projectiles
Bloch electron
Electron-aluminum collisions
Plasmon decay mechanisms
Electron scattering
Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions
topic_facet Free energy
Mathematical models
Projectiles
Bloch electron
Electron-aluminum collisions
Plasmon decay mechanisms
Electron scattering
description A projectile traveling inside a metal can excite bulk plasmons (collective oscillations of the electron gas) that eventually decay. The two main decay mechanisms are the excitation of a Bloch electron and the excitation of a pair of interacting free electrons. In recent publications we developed a model to study these mechanisms for proton impact. In this Brief Report, we extend that model in order to consider an electron as the projectile and deal with the numerical difficulties this projectile choice brings along. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
title Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions
title_short Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions
title_full Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions
title_fullStr Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions
title_full_unstemmed Plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions
title_sort plasmon decay mechanisms in electron-aluminum collisions
publishDate 2005
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_10502947_v71_n2_p_Bocan
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_10502947_v71_n2_p_Bocan
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