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An Enhanced RPA-LDA Model for Ion Stopping Power from Cold Matter to High-Energy Density Plasmas: A Unified, Open-Source Framework

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Pith's one-line read An enhanced RPA-LDA model produces proton stopping powers that match NIST and IAEA databases from cold solids to high-energy-density plasmas.

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arxiv 2606.30978 v1 pith:FSROBS4S submitted 2026-06-29 physics.plasm-ph cond-mat.mtrl-sciphysics.atom-phphysics.comp-ph

Thomas A. Mehlhorn , Ming Feng Gu , Igor Golovkin This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords ionstoppingpowerRPA-LDAwarmdensematterhigh-energydensityplasmasdielectricresponseaverage-atommodelprotoninertialfusion
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The reading

The paper develops a unified computational model for the energy loss of ions traveling through matter under conditions that range from room-temperature solids to hot dense plasmas. It starts from the random-phase-approximation dielectric response evaluated in the local-density approximation using an average-atom electron density and then adds four explicit corrections for strong collisions, local-field effects, electron binding, and higher-order Barkas-Bloch terms. The resulting electronic stopping powers for protons reproduce tabulated experimental values across the periodic table and for compounds, while also matching the sparse existing measurements and calculations in plasma regimes. The same framework is extended by adding nuclear and ionic stopping contributions to give a continuous total stopping power for protons and alpha particles. Because the method remains computationally tractable at arbitrary temperature and density and is released as open-source code, it supplies a single physics-based description usable in inertial-fusion and high-energy-density simulations.

What carries the argument

The RPA dielectric response function in the local-density approximation, evaluated on average-atom electron densities and augmented by the four corrections for strong collisions, local-field effects, binding, and Barkas-Bloch terms.

What would settle it

A new measurement of proton stopping power in a warm-dense or plasma target whose density and temperature lie outside the published data sets, if it deviates from the model's prediction by more than the stated experimental uncertainty, would falsify the claim that the corrections suffice without tuning.

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Core claim

The e-RPA-LDA model augments the RPA dielectric response in the local-density approximation, obtained from an average-atom muffin-tin potential solved with the Flexible Atomic Code, by four corrections (strong-collision, static local-field, electron-binding, and Barkas-Bloch). This construction yields proton stopping powers that agree with the NIST PSTAR and IAEA databases for cold matter across elements and compounds and that reproduce the available plasma benchmarks, time-dependent DFT results, and the first measurements of enhanced light-ion stopping, while the addition of nuclear and ionic terms produces a continuous total stopping power from cold solids to hot dense plasmas.

Load-bearing premise

The four added corrections are both necessary and sufficient to match data over the full temperature-density range without any parameter values adjusted to the validation sets.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The model supplies a physics-based replacement for semi-empirical codes such as SRIM for cold-matter stopping powers.
  • It reproduces charged-particle transport workshop benchmarks and time-dependent DFT calculations for plasmas.
  • Nuclear and ionic stopping contributions can be added consistently to give total energy deposition from cold matter through hot plasmas.
  • The average-atom treatment remains applicable to both low- and high-Z targets at any degeneracy, supporting inertial-fusion design calculations.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the corrections remain valid at still higher densities or temperatures, the same code could generate stopping tables for unmeasured plasma conditions encountered in new fusion concepts.
  • Because the framework is open source, it could be coupled directly to radiation-hydrodynamics codes to replace look-up tables with on-the-fly stopping calculations.
  • The underlying dielectric-response approach might be extended to heavier ions by retaining the same four corrections and average-atom densities.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents an enhanced random-phase-approximation local-density-approximation (e-RPA-LDA) model for ion stopping power valid from cold solids through warm dense matter to high-energy-density plasmas. It starts from the RPA-LDA dielectric response of Wang et al. using average-atom muffin-tin densities from the Flexible Atomic Code, then augments it with four corrections (strong-collision, static local-field, electron-binding, and Barkas-Bloch). The resulting proton stopping powers are claimed to agree with NIST PSTAR and IAEA databases across the periodic table and compounds, reproduce limited plasma data and benchmarks, and are extended to total stopping power by adding nuclear and ionic contributions. An open-source GitHub implementation is provided.

Significance. If the central claim holds without implicit tuning, the work would supply a computationally efficient, physics-based framework for stopping powers over a wide range of conditions and Z, serving as an alternative to semi-empirical codes such as SRIM. The average-atom treatment of all electrons, applicability to arbitrary degeneracy, and open-source release with tabulated data are positive features for inertial fusion and HED applications.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and model section] The headline claim requires that the base RPA-LDA response plus exactly these four corrections reproduces the NIST/IAEA tables and plasma benchmarks with no post-hoc parameters. The manuscript must demonstrate (a) that the functional forms of the corrections contain no adjustable coefficients fitted to the validation sets and (b) that the same fixed corrections remain optimal from cold solids through WDM to HED plasmas; this is not shown in the abstract or model description.
  2. [Results and validation sections] No quantitative evidence is provided for the necessity and sufficiency of each correction. An ablation study (stopping-power error with each correction removed in turn) is needed to establish that agreement across the full temperature-density range is not achieved by any subset or by compensatory adjustments.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states agreement with databases but does not report quantitative error metrics (e.g., mean relative deviation, maximum deviation) or the precise range of projectile energies and target conditions used for the comparison.
  2. [Model description] Notation for the four corrections should be introduced with explicit equations early in the model section rather than by name only.

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We thank the referee for the careful review and constructive comments on the manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise the paper accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and model section] The headline claim requires that the base RPA-LDA response plus exactly these four corrections reproduces the NIST/IAEA tables and plasma benchmarks with no post-hoc parameters. The manuscript must demonstrate (a) that the functional forms of the corrections contain no adjustable coefficients fitted to the validation sets and (b) that the same fixed corrections remain optimal from cold solids through WDM to HED plasmas; this is not shown in the abstract or model description.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and model section should explicitly document that the four corrections are taken from the literature without any coefficients adjusted to the NIST/IAEA or plasma validation data. The strong-collision, static local-field, electron-binding, and Barkas-Bloch corrections follow fixed functional forms derived in prior works and are applied uniformly. We will revise the abstract and add a short subsection in the model description that lists the exact expressions, confirms the absence of fitted parameters, and states that the identical fixed forms are used from cold matter through HED conditions. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results and validation sections] No quantitative evidence is provided for the necessity and sufficiency of each correction. An ablation study (stopping-power error with each correction removed in turn) is needed to establish that agreement across the full temperature-density range is not achieved by any subset or by compensatory adjustments.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current manuscript does not include a quantitative ablation study. While the results show progressive improvement from the base RPA-LDA to the full e-RPA-LDA model, we did not systematically remove each correction and recompute errors. We will add an ablation analysis to the results section, reporting mean absolute percentage errors against NIST/IAEA data (and available plasma benchmarks) for the model with each correction omitted individually, across representative cold, WDM, and HED regimes. This will demonstrate the contribution of every term. revision: yes

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No significant circularity; derivation relies on external prior model and external benchmarks.

full rationale

The abstract describes starting from the RPA-LDA dielectric response of Wang et al. (prior literature), adding four named corrections (strong-collision, static local-field, electron-binding, Barkas-Bloch), and then comparing the output stopping powers to independent external databases (NIST PSTAR, IAEA) and other published plasma data. No quoted step shows any correction defined in terms of the target stopping-power data, no parameter fitted to the validation sets is renamed as a prediction, and no self-citation chain is invoked to justify uniqueness or necessity. The model is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 0 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the RPA dielectric function in the local-density approximation, the accuracy of the average-atom muffin-tin density from the Flexible Atomic Code, and the functional forms of the four added corrections; because only the abstract is available, the precise free parameters and any ad-hoc assumptions in the corrections cannot be enumerated.

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We present an enhanced random-phase-approximation--local-density-approximation (e-RPA-LDA) model for the stopping power of ions that is valid over a wide range of conditions, from cold solids through warm dense matter to high-energy-density plasmas. The electronic stopping is computed from the RPA dielectric response in the local-density approximation over an average-atom electron density obtained in a muffin-tin potential with the Flexible Atomic Code, augmented by four corrections to the earlier RPA-LDA model of Wang et al.: a strong-collision correction for large-momentum-transfer events, a static local-field correction for electron correlations, an electron-binding correction, and the higher-order Barkas and Bloch terms. The resulting proton stopping powers agree with the NIST PSTAR and IAEA databases across the periodic table and for compounds -- providing a physics-based alternative to semi-empirical codes such as SRIM -- and reproduce the limited published plasma data, including charged-particle transport-workshop benchmarks, time-dependent DFT calculations, and the first measurements of enhanced light-ion stopping in plasmas. We further extend the model to a complete total stopping power for protons and alpha particles by adding nuclear and ionic (elastic ion-ion) stopping to the electronic term, yielding a continuous, self-consistent description of energy deposition from cold matter to hot dense plasmas. Because the average-atom treatment includes contributions from all electrons -- unlike Kohn-Sham DFT -- while remaining computationally efficient and applicable to low- and high-Z targets at arbitrary temperature and degeneracy, the model is well suited to inertial fusion and high-energy-density science. The computational framework is available on GitHub (https://github.com/dedx-erpa/dedx), with tabulated stopping powers and ranges in the data/ subdirectory.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Calculated proton stopping power in (a) carbon, (b) aluminum, (c) silver, and (d) gold compared with experimental [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Radial origin of the proton stopping in cold Al at proton energies of 0.1, 1, and 11 MeV: the radial electron density [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Proton stopping power in the compounds (a) SiO [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Band-gap correction for cold insulators. Total proton [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Stopping power of an [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Stopping power of proton in a carbon plasma with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Stopping power of proton in a carbon plasma with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9. Zylstra 2015: energy downshift of 14.7 MeV protons through a 94 mg/cm [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_9.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11. e-RPA/LDA stopping-power enhancement for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_11.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. Energy loss of 1 MeV deuterons in Mylar and alu [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_10.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: FIG. 12. Reported ion-stopping experiments in the velocity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13. Proton range for C, Al, Ag, and Au with and without the nuclear term. (a) Range relative to the PSTAR CSDA range: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14. Frenje 2019: ion stopping in a DT plasma ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: FIG. 15. Alpha deposition in a DT hot spot (3-D Monte Carlo; 3.5 MeV alphas, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: FIG. 16. Alpha stopping power in equimolar DT at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_16.png]

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