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Properties of backscattered particles produced by protons of energy above 1 TeV in an iron absorber

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Backscattered-particle production is studied by means of a detailed simulation of cascade processes in a dense medium. The energy dependence of the albedo and the spatial and angular distributions of various components of this flux are analyzed.

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  1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Vorob'evy gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    D. M. Podorozhnyi, I. D. Rapoport & A. N. Turundaevsky

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Translated from Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 67, No. 12, 2004, pp. 2200–2206.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Podorozhnyi, Rapoport, Turundaevsky.

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Podorozhnyi, D.M., Rapoport, I.D. & Turundaevsky, A.N. Properties of backscattered particles produced by protons of energy above 1 TeV in an iron absorber. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 67, 2176–2182 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1842297

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