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    Anomalous electronic energy losses in protons passing through Gd thin films
    (2023) Valdes, Jorge E.; Leon, Andrea M.; Arista, Nestor; Esaulov, Vladimir A.
    We report a theoretical analysis of recent data on the unexpectedly high electronic energy loss protons in a polycrystalline gadolinium target. These results led the authors of this data to conclude that the free electron model used to analyse these results fails. In this work we provide a quantitative explanation of the experimental results, using an approach based on density functional theory within the framework of the free electron gas model. We performed semi-classical trajectory simulations (SCTS) and employ the local-density-approximation model (LDA), using an inhomogeneous electron density distribution and the polycrystalline character of Gd samples. The good agreement obtained, delineates the need of considering a realistic description of a particle trajectory and the effective electron density 'seen' along it, whose description remains within a FEG model.