Time-dependent density functional calculation of the energy loss of antiprotons colliding with metallic nanoshells

Time-dependent density functional theory is used to study the interaction between antiprotons and metallic nanoshells. The ground state electronic properties of the nanoshell are obtained in the jellium approximation. The energy lost by the antiproton during the collision is calculated and compared...

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Autores: Quijada Van den Berghe, Marina, Borisov, Andrei G., Díez Muiño, Ricardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/71572
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71572
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Sumario:Time-dependent density functional theory is used to study the interaction between antiprotons and metallic nanoshells. The ground state electronic properties of the nanoshell are obtained in the jellium approximation. The energy lost by the antiproton during the collision is calculated and compared to that suffered by antiprotons traveling in metal clusters. The resulting energy loss per unit path length of material in thin nanoshells is larger than the corresponding quantity for clusters. It is shown that the collision process can be interpreted as the antiproton crossing of two nearly bi-dimensional independent metallic systems.