Sumários

Interaction of Charged Particles with Matter

6 março 2025, 10:30 • Patrícia Serrano Gonçalves

Radiative Stopping Power / Bremstrahlung

  • Radiation Length
  • Critical Energy
  • Electromagnetic showers
Multple Scattering and Projected Range
Cherenkov Radiation
Transition Radiation

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

Interaction of Charged Particles with Matter

27 fevereiro 2025, 10:30 • Patrícia Serrano Gonçalves

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

 Bibliography
  • 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

20 fevereiro 2025, 10:30 • Patrícia Serrano Gonçalves

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
Bibliography