Overview of physical interaction models for photon and electron transport used in Monte Carlo codes

Metrologia

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Salvat, Francesc ^a   Fernández Varea, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PHOTONS;

DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INTERACTION PROCESS; MONTE CARLO CODES; PHOTON TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; RANDOM PARTICLES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 65249160230     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/46/2/S08     Document Type: Article

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