Modeling secondary particle tracks generated by high-energy protons in water

Authors

Francisco Blanco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Antonio Munoz, CIEMAT
Diego T. Almeida, Universidade Nova De Lisboa
F. Ferreira Da Silva, Universidade Nova De Lisboa
Paulo Limao-Vieira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Alexey Verkhovtsev, Russian Academy of Sciences
L Ellis-Gibbings, Instituto De F´Isica Fundamental, MBN Research Center, Germany
K Krupa, Csic, Instituto De Fis´Ica Fundamental
A Traore, Csic, Instituto De Fis´Ica Fundamental
G Garcia, Csic, Instituto De Fis´Ica Fundamental, University of Wollongong

RIS ID

103159

Publication Details

Blanco, F., Munoz, A., Almeida, D. T., Da Silva, F., Limao-Vieira, P., Verkhovtsev, A., Ellis-Gibbings, L., Krupa, K., Traore, A., GarcIa, G. et al (2015). Modeling secondary particle tracks generated by high-energy protons in water. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1-1.

Abstract

We present interaction probability data of low-energy secondary electrons and positrons produced due to the proton impact. The probability distribution functions serve as input data for the Low Energy Particle Track Simulation (LEPTS) approach which allows one to include the effect of low-energy species in medical applications of radiation and in ion-beam cancer therapy, in particular.