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Coulomb Scattering
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• Closest approach “d”.• E = ECoulomb d = 2kZe2/E
• What about the recoil nucleus?• HW 9HW 9 Show that
where mN : mass of the nucleus m : mass of alpha
What are the values of d for 10, 20, 30 and 40 MeV on Au?How does this explain … ?
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Coulomb Scattering
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Coulomb Scattering
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Coulomb Scattering
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n target nuclei / cm3 x target thickness (thin).nx target nuclei / cm2
b < b > db d
b
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Rutherford cross sectionAccelerator Physics, JU, First Semester, 2010-2011
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Coulomb ScatteringStudy Fig. 11.10 (a,b,c,d) in Krane
HW 11HW 11Show that the fraction of incident alpha particles scattered at backward angles from a 2 m gold foil is 7.48x10-5.
See also Fig. 11.11 in Krane.
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Coulomb Scattering
• RBS – Channeling.• Ion implantation.• Occupational or substitutional impurities.
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Coulomb Scattering
• Elastic Rutherford scattering.• Inelastic Coulomb excitation.
See the corresponding alpha spectrum of Fig. 11.12 in Krane.
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Coulomb Scattering
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Excitation Ionization ion-pair, suppress recombination in detectors.
Energy loss
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Interaction of heavy charged particles
• Electronic or nuclear (Rutherford, nuclear reactions, …) or radiative (Bremsstrahlung).
• Depletion layer.• Delta rays and secondary electrons.• Electron suppression for charge integration in accelerators.• Faraday Cup.• Tracks.
Detectors mainly designed to make use of electronic interactions.
SRIMhttp://www.srim.org
Principles of Spectrometry
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2
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1ln2
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c
v
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dx
dE
Stopping power Stopping power Bethe-Bloch formula
Minimum ionizing particles (mip).
~1/E
Principles of Spectrometry
~1/E
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eV / Å keV / m MeV / mm keV / (g/cm2) MeV / (mg/cm2) keV / (mg/cm2) eV / (1x1015 atoms/cm2)
UnitsUnits
(conversion)(conversion) You will encounter this when you run SRIM
Principles of Spectrometry
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Electron pick-up. ~1/E
What about fission fragments?????What about fission fragments?????
Bragg curve
• Energy loss is a stochasticstochastic process, thus energy straggling.energy straggling.
Principles of Spectrometry
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Hadrontherapy