Stopping power and ranges of electrons, protons and alpha particles in liquid water using the Geant4-DNA package

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

Volumn 269, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 2307-2311

  Francis, Z ^a   Incerti, S ^b   Karamitros, M ^b   Tran, H N ^b   Villagrasa, C ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Geant4; Geant4 DNA; Monte Carlo; Ranges; Stopping power

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; CROSS SECTION; EFFECTIVE CHARGE; ELASTIC COLLISION; ENERGETIC PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST BORN APPROXIMATION; GEANT4; HIGHLY CHARGED IONS; INELASTIC CROSS SECTIONS; LINEAR ENERGY; LIQUID WATER; LOW ENERGIES; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RANGES; SEMI-EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; SPEED SCALING; STOPPING POWER; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMALISATION; THIN LIQUIDS; VIBRATIONAL EXCITATION;

ALPHA PARTICLES; BORN APPROXIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; IONIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTONS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 80053576488     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2011.02.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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