Measurement of the equilibrium charge state distributions of Ni, Co, and Cu beams in Mo at 2 MeV/u: Review and evaluation of the relevant semi-empirical models

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• 作者：P. Gastis^a ; ^b ; ^{gasti1p@cmich.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; G. Perdikakis^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ^{perdi1g@cmich.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; D. Robertson^b ; ^d ; R. Almus^a ; T. Anderson^b ; ^d ; W. Bauder^d ; P. Collon^b ; ^d ; W. Lu^b ; ^d ; K. Ostdiek^b ; ^d ; M. Skulski^b ; ^d
• 关键词：Charge state distributions ; Semi-empirical models ; Heavy ion beams ; Molybdenum foil ; Gas cell windows
• 刊名：Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：15 April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：373
• 期：Complete
• 页码：117-125
• 全文大小：2606 K

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Equilibrium charge state distributions of stable ⁶⁰Ni, ⁵⁹Co, and ⁶³Cu beams passing through a 1 μm thick Mo foil were measured at beam energies of 1.84 MeV/u, 2.09 MeV/u, and 2.11 MeV/u respectively. A 1-D position sensitive Parallel Grid Avalanche Counter detector (PGAC) was used at the exit of a spectrograph magnet, enabling us to measure the intensity of several charge states simultaneously. The number of charge states measured for each beam constituted more than 99% of the total equilibrium charge state distribution for that element. Currently, little experimental data exists for equilibrium charge state distributions for heavy ions with class="mathmlsrc">title="View the MathML source" class="mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0168583X16001786&_mathId=si16.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0168583X16001786&_rdoc=1&_issn=0168583X&md5=36428837dbd5781d93762304bcab2775">class="imgLazyJSB inlineImage" height="18" width="123" alt="View the MathML source" title="View the MathML source" src="/sd/grey_pxl.gif" data-inlimgeid="1-s2.0-S0168583X16001786-si16.gif">class="mathContainer hidden">class="mathCode">$19\lesssim Z_p\text{,}{Z}_t\lesssim 54$ (Z_p and Z_t, are the projectile’s and target’s atomic numbers respectively). Hence the success of the semi-empirical models in predicting typical characteristics of equilibrium CSDs (mean charge states and distribution widths), has not been thoroughly tested at the energy region of interest. A number of semi-empirical models from the literature were evaluated in this study, regarding their ability to reproduce the characteristics of the measured charge state distributions. The evaluated models were selected from the literature based on whether they are suitable for the given range of atomic numbers and on their frequent use by the nuclear physics community. Finally, an attempt was made to combine model predictions for the mean charge state, the distribution width and the distribution shape, to come up with a more reliable model. We discuss this new “combinatorial” prescription and compare its results with our experimental data and with calculations using the other semi-empirical models studied in this work.