Abstract
Electromagnetic radiation, in its passage through matter, interacts in a variety of ways. The type of interaction depends on (1) photon energy, (2) Z of the material and (3) particle or field with which the photon interacts.
There is a basic difference between the energy loss of photons and that of charged particles. The charged particles lose their energy mainly due to ionization, leaving constant range at a given energy. However, photons lose their energy by a one shot process. This leads to a truly exponential attenuation.
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Kamal, A. (2014). Passage of Radiation Through Matter. In: Nuclear Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38655-8_2
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