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RECENT experiments1,2 have shown that when metals are bombarded with energetic protons and ions, charged particles are emitted along with neutral particles. The present work was carried out to analyse the emitted ions and to establish that fast protons and molecular hydrogen ions make single bi-particle elastic collisions with atoms lying on a metal surface where they behave as if they are effectively isolated from the lattice.
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CHAUDHRI, R., KHAN, M. & CHAUDHRI, M. Single Bi-particle Elastic Collisions of Fast Protons with Metals. Nature 205, 997–998 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205997a0
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