Nuclear fragmentation reactions in extended media studied with Geant4 toolkit

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

Volumn 268, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 604-615

  Pshenichnov, Igor ^a,b   Botvina, Alexander ^a,b   Mishustin, Igor ^a,c   Greiner, Walter ^a  

^a FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo methods; Multifragment emission and correlations; Projectile and target fragmentation

Indexed keywords

BREAK-UP; CANCER THERAPY; COSMIC RADIATION; DEPTH DOSE; GEANT4 TOOLKITS; INTERMEDIATE MASS FRAGMENTS; MULTIFRAGMENT EMISSION AND CORRELATIONS; MULTIFRAGMENTATION; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION REACTIONS; NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS COLLISION; PROJECTILE AND TARGET FRAGMENTATIONS; STATISTICAL MULTIFRAGMENTATION MODEL;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COSMOLOGY; PROJECTILES; RADIATION SHIELDING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77549086575     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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