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This chapter presents the differential cross sections in energy transfer for hard collisions between a target electron and massive spin-0 and spin-½ and electron and positron projectiles. Using the collision stopping power, these are then used to derive the corresponding hard-collision stopping powers.
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McParland, B.J. (2014). Hard Collisions. In: Medical Radiation Dosimetry. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5403-7_9
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