Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
August 1991
Abstract
A model of radiation action by energetic heavy ions, inspired by a study of particle tracks in electron sensitive emulsion, has been successfully applied to many radiation effects in condensed matter, yielding quantitative descriptions and occasional predictions. Radiation effects are attributed primarily to secondary electrons. Each detector is imagined to be a collection of targets whose radiosensitivity is represented parametrically. We avoid a mechanistic description of detector response so as to retain the global character of the model. Attention is focused on the structure of particle tracks, on the radial deposition of dose about an ion’s path by “δ-rays,” and on action cross sections.
Comments
Published in Radiation Physics and Chemistry 37:1 (1991), pp. 125–129; formerly International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part C. Radiation Physics and Chemistry http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0969806X Copyright © 1991 Pergamon Press plc. Used by permission.