Al. Ford et Jf. Reading, IMPROVED FORCED IMPULSE METHOD CALCULATIONS OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE-IONIZATION OF HELIUM BY COLLISION WITH HIGH-ENERGY PROTONS AND ANTIPROTONS, Journal of physics. B, Atomic molecular and optical physics, 27(18), 1994, pp. 4215-4227
Our previous forced impulse method calculations of single and double i
onization of helium by protons and antiprotons have been improved by i
ncluding d orbitals in the target centred basis. The calculations are
in good agreement with experimental measurements of the ratio R of dou
ble to single ionization, without the 1.35 scaling factor we applied t
o our previous results. We also compare the separate single and double
ionization cross sections to experiment and find good agreement. Expe
rimental cross sections differential in projectile scattering angle at
large angle (greater than 2.5 mrad) are compared to our impact parame
ter dependent ionization probabilities at small impact parameter, for
the double to single ratio. The agreement is good, except at the lowes
t energy we have considered, 0.3 MeV.