Treatment of Compton scattering of linearly polarized photons in Monte Carlo codes

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 403-411

  Matt, Giorgio ^a   Feroci, Marco ^a   Rapisarda, Massimo ^b   Costa, Enrico ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SCATTERING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COMPTON SCATTERING; LINEARLY POLARIZED PHOTONS; X RAY POLARIMETER;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; X IRRADIATION;

EID: 0030271922     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0969-806X(95)00472-A     Document Type: Article

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