L. Guillemot et al., INELASTIC PROCESSES IN NE- CHARGE FRACTIONS AND SURFACE-ROUGHNESS( COLLISIONS WITH A MG SURFACE ), Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 90(1-4), 1994, pp. 270-273
Results of a study of inelastic scattering in Ne+ collisions with a po
lycrystalline Mg target, performed by measurements of charge fractions
, are reported. In agreement with previous studies, ion production is
found to be due to binary collisions with surface atoms and the charge
fractions can be well described by a simple exponential dependence on
the perpendicular velocity in the outgoing trajectory. This is also s
hown to be the case for Ar+ collisions. Charge fractions and angular d
istributions of scattered particles are strongly affected by surface r
oughness effects.