An Introduction to the Passage of Energetic Particles through Matter

Making modern data more accessible, this book explores the interactions with matter of energetic particles, including photons, electrons, protons, alpha particles, and neutrons. It presents quantities of interest in many applications, such as cross sections, charged particle stopping powers, electron mean ranges, and angular distributions. The book also discusses electron multiple scattering and models for electron mean range against both stopping power and scattering. Numerous graphs illustrate the material and the accompanying CD-ROM includes full data sets and large, color contour graphs of cross sections, stopping powers, and ranges in all elements at all interesting energies.