Implementation of electron-impact ionization into the EGS4 code

Authors
Namito, Y Hirayama, H
Citation
Y. Namito et H. Hirayama, Implementation of electron-impact ionization into the EGS4 code, NUCL INST A, 423(2-3), 1999, pp. 238-246
Citations number
54
Categorie Soggetti
Spectroscopy /Instrumentation/Analytical Sciences","Instrumentation & Measurement
Journal title
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
ISSN journal
01689002 → ACNP
Volume
423
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
238 - 246
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(19990301)423:2-3<238:IOEIIT>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
A modification to the general-purpose Monte-Carlo electron-photon transport code EGS4 [1] was made in order to include K-shell electron-impact ionizat ion (EII). Five cross sections of It-shell EII have been implemented. The r atio of the K-shell EII cross section to the Moller scattering cross sectio n is prepared by the PEGS4 program, and is then used in the EGS4 code, Simu lations of the K-X-ray emissions from Al, ai, Cu, Sn, Ag and Au targets for an electron beam with an incident energy of 0.01 to 3 MeV were performed b y using the improved EGS4 code; the calculated K-X-ray yields agreed well w ith the measurements. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.