On the theory and simulation of multiple coulomb scattering of heavy-charged particles

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 116, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 293-296

  Striganov, S I ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON RADIATION; HEAVY ION RADIATION; KINEMATICS; NEUTRON RADIATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE RADIATION; PROCESS MODEL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PROCESSING; RADIATION SCATTERING; SAMPLING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; HEAVY IONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 31544453903     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci107     Document Type: Article

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