Introduction Charged and uncharged particles Excitation and ionization Electron interactions Range and path-length Collisional and radiative (bremsstrahlung) energy loss Stopping power and linear energy transfer (LET) X-ray production Beam hardening …
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Figure 1.6, is unstable and decays by rearranging its nucleon numbers. This is achieved by releasing particles, changing a proton to a neutron or vice versa, or by absorbing nearby…
