Interaction of Charged Particles with Matter

Aula 1

Collisional Stopping Power: energy loss by excitation and ionization

• The Bethe Bloch equation: Bohr's derivation, Bethe´s derivation, corrections to the Bethe equation
• Range and Stopping Power
• The Braag peak

• Radiation Length
• Critical Energy

• Turner, chapter 5
• PDG - https://pdg.lbl.gov/2023/reviews/contents_sports.html , Passage of Particles through matter 

Introduction to the course and Interaction of photons with matter

Aula 1

Interaction of photons with matter

• Interaction of Photons with matter: photoelectric effect, Compton Scattering, and Pair production
• Cross-section definition and units
• Absorption coefficient, Mass absorption coefficient, Interaction Length
• The XCOM NIST database

• Turner, chapter 2
• PDG (https://pdg.lbl.gov/2023/reviews/contents_sports.html)  - Passage of Particles Through Matter

The interactions of gammas and charged particles with matter: homework and applications

Aula 2

Interaction of charged particles with matter

• Multiple Scattering 
• Cherenkov Radiation

Homework and applications 

• Homework discussion
• The ESTAR, PSTAR and ASTAR NIST database

Nuclear decay - radiation production

Aula 2

Review of nuclear phenomenology and decays

• Nuclear Mass and mass excess
• Nuclear Binding Energy
• Nuclear stability and decay
• Types of decays: beta+, beta-, electronic capture, gama decay and internal conversion, alpha decay

Accelerators and Applications

Aula 3

Particle Accelerators