Electron emission from condensed phase material induced by fast protons

Ion-induced electron emission patterns in condensed matter

We will briefly present here a collaboration work that has recently started in the frame of the GSI Heavy Ion Radiotherapy project. The motivation of this work is to obtain valuable and systematic data of the ion-induced electron emission in condensed matter, especially emission patterns for slow electrons in terms of direction and energy and their dependencies on target density, projectile mas...

Electron Emission from Surfaces Induced by Slow Ions and Atoms

Electron emission from carbon foils induced by keV ions

We have measured yields of electrons emitted in the forward and backward directions from ultrathin carbon foils due to 10–100 keV atomic and molecular projectiles. In general, electron yields are higher in the forward than in the backward direction. Their behavior with projectile type and energy can be explained by a competition of a forward peaked angular distribution of initial ionization eve...

Laser-induced ultrafast electron emission from a field emission tip

We show that a fi eld emission tip electron source that is triggered with a femtosecond laser pulse can generate electron pulses shorter than the laser pulse duration (100  fs). The emission process is sensitive to a power law of the laser intensity, which supports an emission mechanism based on multiphoton absorption followed by over-the-barrier emission. Observed continuous transitions betw...

Čerenkov emission of quasiparallel whistlers by fast electron phase-space holes during magnetic reconnection.

Kinetic simulations of magnetotail reconnection have revealed electromagnetic whistlers originating near the exhaust boundary and propagating into the inflow region. The whistler production mechanism is not a linear instability, but rather is Čerenkov emission of almost parallel whistlers from localized moving clumps of charge (finite-size quasiparticles) associated with nonlinear coherent elec...