CORRELATED ION STOPPING IN DENSE CLASSICAL PLASMA

Correlated ion stopping within N-clusters of ion debris resulting from a swift fragmentation of a weakly ionized cluster impacting a dense a nd fully ionized classical plasma is considered in the high velocity l imit. Elaborating upon dicluster polarized stopping with a Fried-Conte plasma dielectric function, N-cluster stopping is taken as a linear s uperposition of every available dicluster pair. The main focus is on t he conspicuous enhanced correlation stopping and its dependence on N,N -cluster arrangement as well as target plasma coupling. Results are of potential significance in enlarging substantially the parameter range requested for achieving particle-driven thermonuclear fusion.