Plane-wave Born treatment of projectile-electron excitation and loss in relativistic collisions with atomic targets

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 527041-5270412

  Voitkiv, A B ^a,b   Grun N ^a   Scheid, W ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ARIFOV INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Uzbekistan)

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