2005/05/05 by I. L. Rakhno, Rakhno, I. L., N. V. Mokhov +3
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0505043
10 pages, 5 figures. Proceedings of the Monte Carlo 2005 Topical Meeting of the American Nuclear Society, April 17-21, 2005, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, (CD-ROM edition), ISBN: 0-89448-695-0
arxiv created 2005/05/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The needs of various accelerator and space projects stimulated recent developments to the MARS Monte Carlo code. One of the essential parts of those is heavy ion ionization energy loss. This paper describes an implementation of several corrections to dE/dx in order to take into account the deviations from the Bethe theory at low and high energies as well as the effect of a finite nuclear size at ultra-relativistic energies. Special attention is paid to the transition energy region where the onset of the effect of a finite nuclear size is observed. Comparisons with experimental data and NIST data are presented.