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Phys. Rev. A 75, 041201(R) (2007) [4 pages]

Effect of giant plasmon excitations in single and double ionization of C60 in fast heavy-ion collisions

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Umesh Kadhane, A. Kelkar, D. Misra, Ajay Kumar, and Lokesh C. Tribedi*
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005, India

Received 2 May 2006; published 4 April 2007

Single and multiple ionization of C60 in collisions with highly charged fast oxygen ions have been studied using the recoil-ion time-of-flight technique. The dependence of multiple-ionization cross sections on projectile charge state (qp) was found to be drastically different from those for an atomic target, such as Ne. A model based on the giant dipole plasmon resonance explains quite well the observed qp dependence for the single- and-double-ionization cross sections. But the same model deviates for triple and quadruple ionizations.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.041201
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.041201
PACS:
36.40.Gk, 34.50.Fa, 61.46.−w

*Email address: lokesh@tifr.res.in