Charged particle transport data, intermediate energy range and uncertainty data
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Charged particle transport data, intermediate energy range and uncertainty data


Nuclear Reactor Physics - Nuclear Data Processing

Author : Cheikh M'Backé DIOP

Publication date: January 10, 2017 | Lire en français

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5. Charged particle transport data, intermediate energy range and uncertainty data

5.1 Charged particle transport data

Charged particles appear as a result of nuclear or atomic interaction processes: α and β particles from radioactive processes, the recoil electron from the Compton effect or the electron-positron pair from gamma materialization. These phenomena give rise to what is known as the electromagnetic cascade, a kind of tree-like propagation of electrons, positrons and gamma rays.

The data are mainly :

  • cross sections of nuclear reactions induced by charged particles ;

  • effective bremsstrahlung cross-sections (or braking radiation) ;

  • electron/positron scattering cross sections in matter ;

  • ...

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