Author(s): Richard A. Wilhelm, Elisabeth Gruber, Janine Schwestka, Roland Kozubek, Teresa I. Madeira, José P. Marques, Jacek Kobus, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Marika Schleberger, and Friedrich Aumayr
Interatomic Coulomb decay is shown to cause the ultrafast neutralization and de-excitation of atoms after they impact a surface.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 103401] Published Fri Sep 08, 2017