Bethe’s stopping number

physics

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use in particle physics

  • energy states in molecular systems
    In radiation: Stopping power

    …with two positive charges), the stopping number B, according to the German-born American physicist Hans Bethe, is given by quantum mechanics as equal to the atomic number (Z) of the absorbing medium times the natural logarithm (ln) of two times the electronic mass times the velocity squared of the particle,…

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