Breit interaction overtaking Coulomb force at low energies: an unexpectedly efficient mechanism for ionization in slow collisions
It is generally assumed that ionization in slow collisions of light atomic particles, whose constituents (electrons and nuclei) move with velocities orders of magnitude smaller than the speed of light, is driven solely by the Coulomb force. Here we show, however, that the Breit interaction—a relativ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Jezik: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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| Serija: | New Journal of Physics |
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| Online dostop: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad8676 |