Alternative treatment for the energy-transfer and transport cross section in dressed electron-ion binary collisions

Abstract

A formula for determining the electronic stopping power and the transport cross section in electron-ion binary collisions is derived from the induced density for spherically symmetric potentials using the partial-wave expansion. In contrast to the previous one found in many textbooks, the present formula converges to the Bethe and Bloch stopping-power formulas at high ion velocities and agrees rather well with experimental stopping-power data, as shown here for Al, C, and H2O targets. It can be employed in plasma physics and particularly in any application that requires electronic stopping-power values of quasifree electrons with high accuracy.