Title :
Straggling of Relativistic Charged Particles: Corrections to the Landau-Vavilov Straggling Functions in the Hydrogenic Wave-Function Approximations
Author :
Bichsel, Hans ; Yu, Simon
Author_Institution :
Department of Radiology, University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195
Abstract :
Corrections to the Landau-Vavilov straggling functions are given for relativistic charged incident particles. The calculation of the correction term is based on 1) the differential cross section for relativistic particles given by Bethe, and 2) a heavy hydrogen model for heavy atoms.
Keywords :
Electrons; Energy loss; Equations; Hydrogen; Ionization; Performance analysis; Probability density function; Radiology; Taylor series; Tellurium;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1972.4326828
