For very light ions slowing down in heavy materials, the nuclear stopping is weaker than the electronic at all energies.

However, heavy ion projectiles can easily recoil lighter ions which, if the geometry is right, can be ejected from the target and detected.

Particle therapy had already been performed in USA and Japan using protons, carbon, and other light ions.

Other isotopes are synthesized in various laboratories, but at much smaller amounts, by bombarding heavy actinide elements with light ions.

Beams with lighter ions bend at a smaller radius than beams with heavier ions.

If you feed a nugget neutrons or light ions it will eat them, giving off energy in the process.

Wake fields also can capture and guide light ions or positrons in the direction perpendicular to the wake.

A spectrometer counts the number of carbon-14 ions left after the lighter ions are separated.

Because the lighter ions respond slightly more to the magnetic field than the heavier, their trajectories bend in a tighter arc.

The light ions 'fuse' to yield larger ions, releasing energy in the process.