Data for secondary-electron production from ion precipitation at Jupiter III: Target and projectile processes in H, H, and H + H collisions
- 1. Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, United States of America (United States)
- 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, United States of America (United States)
- 3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America (United States)
- 4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045, United States of America (United States)
Description
To extend the range of data required for modeling the secondary-electron production from ion precipitation into the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, inelastic processes for collisions of 1 keV to 25 MeV H, H, and H with H are considered. As in other work treating the dominant heavy-ion species of magnetospheric origin, O and S ions (Schultz et al., 2017, 2019; Gharibnejad et al., 2019) the classical trajectory Monte Carlo method is employed to describe the secondary-electron-producing channels (single and double ionization, transfer ionization, and single and double stripping) as well as the other inelastic channels (single and double charge transfer and projectile and target excitation) required to model the energy loss and charge state evolution of the precipitating ions in their passage through the atmospheric gas. Data is described and tabulated both as directly obtained from these calculations and normalized to widely accepted recommended values (Hunter et al., 1990) for channels for which recommendations exist. As in the previous work, the overall accuracy and completeness of the data presented is verified by use of a Monte Carlo ion-transport simulation to obtain the stopping power and ion-fraction populations as a function of impact energy in comparison with accepted values. The addition of the present data to models of secondary-electron production in Jupiter's atmosphere improves such model's ability to interpret in situ observations of the precipitating ions' effect by the spacecraft Juno as well as enhancing the physical reality of models of the coupling of the Jovian magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere.
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adt.2019.101307Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.adt.2019.101307;
- PII
- S0092640X19300701;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables
- Journal Page Range
- p. 101307
- ISSN
- 0092-640X
- CODEN
- ADNDAT
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 51014024
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ATMOSPHERES; CHARGE STATES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; ENERGY LOSSES; EXCITATION; HEAVY IONS; HYDROGEN IONS 1 MINUS; HYDROGEN IONS 1 PLUS; INELASTIC SCATTERING; IONOSPHERE; JUPITER PLANET; KEV RANGE; MEV RANGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OXYGEN IONS; PRECIPITATION; PROJECTILES; STOPPING POWER; SULFUR IONS; TARGETS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; CATIONS; CHARGED PARTICLES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; FERMIONS; HYDROGEN IONS; IONS; LEPTONS; LOSSES; PLANETS; SCATTERING; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SIMULATION
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