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| Linear Energy transfer (LET) |
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| the average energy locally deposited in an absorber reuslting from a charged particle per unit distance of travel |
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| is measured as the average energy lost by a charged particle per unit of distance travel |
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| charged particle in an absorber is the average depth of penetration of the charged particle into the absorber before it loses all its kinetic energy and stops |
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| Average amount of energy needed to create an ion pair in a given medium. 34 eV |
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| the number of ion pairs formed by the particle per unit path lenght |
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| All or none energy loss, energy less then 1 MeV. |
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| a partial energy loss for the incoming photon. the photon interacts with an orbital electron of some atom and only part of the energy is transferred to the election |
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| Pair Production (most complex) |
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| When all of energy of the photon is converted to mass 1.022MeV |
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| Radiative capture, particle emission, Fisson |
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