Journal of the ICRU Vol 5 No 1 (2005) Report 73 Oxford University Press
doi:10.1093/jicru/ndi006
GUIDE TO THE REPORT While it is hoped that this report will be found useful for a multitude of purposes, there are two main goals:
The reader who is primarily interested in the second item may be tempted to go directly to Section 6, which, after a specification of theoretical and numerical input, presents stopping tables for ions and materials specified above. Nevertheless, it is strongly recommended to have a look at Section 5, which is essential for any assessment of the accuracy of the numbers quoted in the tables. Although Section 5 contains a few references to earlier parts of the report, those references are not essential for understanding the main conclusions to be drawn. The reader may find it useful to read Section 2 for definitions, notation and units and to
ª International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements 2005
Downloaded from http://jicru.oxfordjournals.org/ at University of Connecticut on May 25, 2015
1. A detailed introduction to the physical processes governing heavy-ion penetration and their quantification in terms of measurement and theory, and 2. providing data that are needed in the user community.
consult the glossary whenever an unknown symbol occurs. The reader who is interested in the first item may wish to read the report from the beginning. However, some readers may be more interested in experiment than theory, or vice versa. Again, Section 4 on experiments contains only a small number of references to Section 3 which should not prevent the experimentally oriented reader from going directly from Section 2 to Section 4 if so desired. While the theoretical Section 3 is intended to provide a comprehensive survey of pertinent theory on heavy-ion stopping, it has nevertheless more review than textbook character. For explicit derivations of quoted results the reader is advised to consult literature references given in context. Parts of this report are based on material previously published. The contents of Sections 2 and 3 have been published as a monograph (Sigmund, 2004). Much of the material presented in Section 4 has been extracted from a major review (Geissel et al., 2002). Section 5 represents a revised and expanded version of a paper by Paul and Schinner (2003a).
doi:10.1093/jicru/ndi006
GUIDE TO THE REPORT While it is hoped that this report will be found useful for a multitude of purposes, there are two main goals:
The reader who is primarily interested in the second item may be tempted to go directly to Section 6, which, after a specification of theoretical and numerical input, presents stopping tables for ions and materials specified above. Nevertheless, it is strongly recommended to have a look at Section 5, which is essential for any assessment of the accuracy of the numbers quoted in the tables. Although Section 5 contains a few references to earlier parts of the report, those references are not essential for understanding the main conclusions to be drawn. The reader may find it useful to read Section 2 for definitions, notation and units and to
ª International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements 2005
Downloaded from http://jicru.oxfordjournals.org/ at University of Connecticut on May 25, 2015
1. A detailed introduction to the physical processes governing heavy-ion penetration and their quantification in terms of measurement and theory, and 2. providing data that are needed in the user community.
consult the glossary whenever an unknown symbol occurs. The reader who is interested in the first item may wish to read the report from the beginning. However, some readers may be more interested in experiment than theory, or vice versa. Again, Section 4 on experiments contains only a small number of references to Section 3 which should not prevent the experimentally oriented reader from going directly from Section 2 to Section 4 if so desired. While the theoretical Section 3 is intended to provide a comprehensive survey of pertinent theory on heavy-ion stopping, it has nevertheless more review than textbook character. For explicit derivations of quoted results the reader is advised to consult literature references given in context. Parts of this report are based on material previously published. The contents of Sections 2 and 3 have been published as a monograph (Sigmund, 2004). Much of the material presented in Section 4 has been extracted from a major review (Geissel et al., 2002). Section 5 represents a revised and expanded version of a paper by Paul and Schinner (2003a).
