Comment on "Degenerate Wannier Theory for Multiple Ionization"
Atomic Physics
2009-11-06 v1
Abstract
Recent Letter of T.Pattard and J.M.Rost (Phys.Rev.Lett 80, 5081 (1998)) suggests that there exist logarithmic corrections to the near threshold cross section for the processes of break up of a particle into several charged fragments. This comment shows that it is incorrect, the logarithmic terms never exist. The cross section for all processes behaves as some power of the above-threshold energy, similarly to the known Wannier problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0009001,
title = {Comment on "Degenerate Wannier Theory for Multiple Ionization"},
author = {M. Yu. Kuchiev and V. N. Ostrovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0009001},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
1 page, accepted for publication in PRL