Cross sections for the interactions of 1 eV-100 MeV electrons in liquid water and application to Monte-Carlo simulation of HZE radiation tracks

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Plante, Lanik ^a,b   Cucinotta, Francis A ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ENERGY; CELLULAR COMPONENTS; CROSS SECTION; ENERGY; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; ENERGY RANGES; INELASTIC CROSS SECTIONS; ION PAIRS; IONIZED ELECTRONS; LIQUID WATER; LOW ENERGIES; MEV-ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RADIAL DOSE; RADIATION RISK; SIMULATION CODE; SPACE RADIATIONS; STOPPING POWER; TARGET MOLECULE; TRACK STRUCTURE;

IONS; MOLECULES; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 67650490580     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/063047     Document Type: Article

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