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Chapter 5 deals with two-particle collisions characterized by an energetic projectile striking a stationary target. The many types of interacting particles as well as the various possible categories of interactions result in a wide range of two-particle collisions of interest in nuclear and medical physics. Three categories of projectiles are considered in this chapter: light charged particles (electrons and positrons); heavy charged particles such as protons; and neutral particles such as neutrons. Target is either atom as a whole, atomic nucleus, or atomic orbital electron. Collisions discussed in this chapter are classified into three categories: nuclear reactions, elastic collisions, and inelastic collisions. Several parameters, such as Q value and energy threshold in nuclear reaction, as well as energy transfer in elastic scattering, are discussed in this chapter.
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Podgoršak, E.B. (2016). Two-Particle Collisions. In: Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25382-4_5
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