Ab Initio Double-Differential Ionization Cross-Section Calculations in Antiproton–Helium Collisions

Abstract

We present ionization cross-sections for antiproton and helium collisions based on an ab initio time-dependent coupled channel method. In our calculations, a finite basis set of regular helium Coulomb wave packets and Slater function were used. The semiclassical approximation was applied with the time-dependent Coulomb potential to describe the antiproton–electron interaction. Three different projectile energies were considered as 10, 50 and 100 keV. We found clear evidence for the formation of the anti-cusp in the differential distributions.

Keywords

• ab initio time-dependent coupled channel method
• ionization
• antiproton
• anti-cusp