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Shower approach in the simulation of ion scattering from solids
Año:2011

Áreas de investigación
  • Ingenierías

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Descripción
An efficient approach for the simulation of ion scattering from solids is proposed. For every encountered atom, we take multiple samples of its thermal displacements among thosewhich result in scattering with high probability to finally reach the detector. As a result, the detector is illuminated by intensive ?showers,? where each event of detection must be weighted according to the actual probability of the atom displacement. The computational cost of such simulation is orders of magnitude lower than in the direct approach, and a comprehensive analysis of multiple and plural scattering effects becomes possible. We use this method for two purposes. First, the accuracy of the approximate approaches, developed mainly for ion-beam structural analysis, is verified. Second, the possibility to reproduce a wide class of experimental conditions is used to analyze some basic features of ion-solid collisions: the role of double violent collisions in low-energy ion scattering; the origin of the ?surface peak? in scattering from amorphous samples; the low-energy tail in the energy spectra of scatteredmedium-energy ions due to plural scattering; and the degradation of blocking patterns in two-dimensional angular distributions with increasing depth of scattering. As an example of simulation for ions of MeV energies, we verify the time reversibility for channeling and blocking of 1-MeV protons in a W crystal. The possibilities of analysis that our approach offers may be very useful for various applications, in particular, for structural analysis with atomic resolution.
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Título de la revista
Physical Review E 83, 056707
ISSN
1550-2376
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0
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Volumen
83
DOI
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.056707
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  • Autor: V.A. Khodyrev Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow
  • Autor: R. Andrzejewski Centro de Microanálisis de Materiales, UAM
  • Autor: Antonio Juan Rivera de Mena UPM
  • Autor: D.O. Boerma Centro de Microanálisis de Materiales, UAM
  • Autor: J.E. Prieto Centro de Microanálisis de Materiales, UAM

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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Fusión Nuclear Inercial y Tecnología de fusión
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto de Fusión Nuclear
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Nuclear