Deterministic and Monte Carlo codes for multiple scattering photon transport with arbitrary polarization states

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 62, Issue 6-7 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 517-528

  Fernandez, Jorge E ^a,b   Scot, Viviana ^b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Multiple scattering; Photon polarization; Photon transport; Spectrometry

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLARIZATION;

MONTE CARLO CODES; PHOTON BEAMS; TRANSPORT CODES; VECTOR EQUATIONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 34547557461     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.03.022     Document Type: Article

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