The scattering of muons in low-Z materials

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-55

  Attwood, D ^a   Bell, P ^a   Bull, S ^a   McMahon, T ^a   Wilson, J ^a   Fernow, R ^b   Gruber, P ^c   Jamdagni, A ^d   Long, K ^d   McKigney, E ^d   Savage, P ^d   Curtis Rouse, M ^e   Edgecock, T R ^e   Ellis, M ^e   Lidbury, J ^e   Murray, W ^e   Norton, P ^e   Peach, K ^e   Ishida, K ^f   Matsuda, Y ^f   Nagamine, K ^f   Nakamura, S ^f   Marshall, G M ^g   Benveniste, S ^h   Cline, D ^h   Fukui, Y ^h   Lee, K ^h   Pischalnikov, Y ^h   Holmes, S ⁱ   Bogacz, A ^j   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f RIKEN   (Japan)

^g TRIUMF   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ionisation cooling; Multiple scattering

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

IONISATION COOLING; LIQUID HYDROGEN; MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 33748441009     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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