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Kinetic energy of a primary ion after a collision.
Note: Following binary elastic scattering, the kinetic energy of the primary or probe ions, , is given by where is the kinetic energy of the incident probe ion prior to scattering; is the mass of the probe ion; is the mass of the target atom; is the angle between the initial and final velocity vectors for the probe ion, as determined from a common origin in the laboratory coordinate system, expressed as a value between and .