“…Excitation of atoms by ion impact has been studied intensively in the past few decades, both theoretically and experimentally [15,26,[28][29][30][31]. Note that the available theoretical calculations are mainly based on perturbative methods [8,11,14,22], directly solving the Schrödinger equation by a proper expansion of the initial and final wavefunctions [26] and semiclassical methods [10,11,18,19,25].…”