A Monte Carlo program for the analysis of low-energy electron tracks in liquid water

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1985-2003

  Wiklund, Kristin ^a   Fernndez Varea, José M ^a,b   Lind, Bengt K ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; DISSOCIATIVE ATTACHMENT; ELECTRON IMPACT; ELECTRON KINETIC ENERGY; ELECTRON TRACKS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVENT SIMULATION; INTERACTION MECHANISMS; INTERACTION MODEL; IONIZING COLLISIONS; LIQUID WATER; LOW ENERGY ELECTRONS; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; MICRO-DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; SIMULATED DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; STATIC-EXCHANGE APPROXIMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; LIQUIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

PHOTODISSOCIATION;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRONS; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOFTWARE; WATER;

EID: 79952917700     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/7/005     Document Type: Article

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