Particle Penetration and Radiation Effects General Aspects and Stopping of Swift Point Charges /

• Main Author: Sigmund, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, 151
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Particle acceleration.; Condensed matter.; Engineering.; Materials science.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Materials Science, general.; Engineering, general.

This book, which has evolved from the author’s lectures at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark, draws on his experience as an active researcher in the interaction of charged particles with matter over more than forty years. The emphasis is on the theoretical descripti...

Table of Contents:

• General
• Elementary Penetration Theory
• Elastic Scattering
• Stopping
• Stopping of Swift Point Charge I: Bohr and Bethe Theory
• Dielectric Stopping Theory
• Stopping of Swift Point Charge II: Extensions
• Arriving at Numbers
• Straggling
• Energy-Loss Straggling: Variance and Higher Cumulants
• Energy-Loss Spectra.