The standard distorted wave Born approximation(DWBA) method has been extended to second-order Born amplitude in order to describe the multiple interactions between the projectile and the atomic target.Second-order DWBA calculations have been preformed to investigate the triple differential cross sections(TDCS) of coplanar doubly symmetric(e,2e) collisions for the alkali target potassium at excess energies of 6 eV-60 eV.Compared with the previous first-order DWBA calculations,the present theoretical model improves the degree of agreement with experiments,especially for the backward scattering angle region of TDCS.This indicates that the present second-order Born term is capable of giving a reasonable correction to the DWBA model in studying coplanar symmetric(e,2e) problems in low and intermediate energy ranges.
The standard distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) method has been extended to second-order Born amplitude in order to describe the multiple interactions between the projectile and the atomic target. Second-order DWBA calculations have been preformed to investigate the triple differential cross sections (TDCS) of coplanar doubly symmetric (e, 2e) collisions for the alkali target potassium at excess energies of 6 eV-60 eV. Compared with the previous first-order DWBA calculations, the present theoretical model improves the degree of agreement with experiments, especially for the backward scattering angle region of TDCS. This indicates that the present second-order Born term is capable of giving a reasonable correction to the DWBA model in studying coplanar symmetric (e, 2e) problems in low and intermediate energy ranges.