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Applying full conserving dielectric function to the energy loss straggling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco
Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco*
Affiliation:
E.T.S.I. Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco, E.T.S.I. Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to calculate proton energy loss straggling using a full conserving dielectric function (FCDF) for plasmas at any degeneracy. This dielectric function takes into account plasma electron-electron collision considering density, momentum, and energy conservation. When only momentum conservation law is accomplished, the FCDF reproduces the well known Mermin dielectric function, when none of the conservations laws are obeyed, the random phase approximation (RPA) is recovered. Then, the FCDF is applied for the first time to the determination of the energy loss straggling. Differences among diverse dielectric functions to determine straggling follow the same behavior for all kind of plasmas then, they do not depend on the plasma degeneracy but essentially do on the value of the collision frequency. These discrepancies can rise up to 5% between FCDF values and the Mermin ones, and 2% between the FCDF ones and RPA ones for plasma with high enough collision frequency. The similarity between FCDF and RPA results is not surprising, as all conservation laws are also considered in RPA dielectric function. The fact that FCDF and RPA give similar results and the fact that FCDF considers electron-electron collisions and RPA does not, means that latter collisions are not significant for energy loss straggling calculations.

Keywords

Dielectric functionElectron collisionsEnergy loss stragglingPlasma degeneracy
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 81 - 86
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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