Energy losses of fast heavy-ion projectiles in dense hydrogen plasmas

It has recently been shown that the Bethe-Larkin formula for the energy losses of fast heavy-ion projectiles in dense hydrogen plasmas is corrected by the electron-ion correlations (Ballester and Tkachenko 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 075002). We report numerical estimates of this correction based on the values of gei(0) obtained by numerical simulations (Militzer and Pollock 2000 Phys. Rev. E 61 3470). We also extend this result to the case of projectiles with dicluster charge distribution. We show that the experimental visibility of the electron-ion correlation correction is enhanced in the case of dicluster projectiles with randomly orientated charge centers. Although we consider here the hydrogen plasmas to make the effect physically more clear, the generalization to multispecies plasmas is straightforward