Nuclear collision length is the mean free path of a particle before undergoing a
nuclear reaction
In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei, or a nucleus and an external subatomic particle, collide to produce one or more new nuclides. Thus, a nuclear reaction must cause a transformatio ...
, for a given particle in a given medium. The collision length is smaller than the
nuclear interaction length
Nuclear interaction length is the mean distance travelled by a hadronic particle before undergoing an inelastic nuclear interaction.
See also
* Nuclear collision length
*Radiation length In physics, the radiation length is a characteristic of a ma ...
because the latter excludes the elastic and quasi-elastic (diffractive) reactions from its definition.
See also
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Nuclear interaction length
Nuclear interaction length is the mean distance travelled by a hadronic particle before undergoing an inelastic nuclear interaction.
See also
* Nuclear collision length
*Radiation length In physics, the radiation length is a characteristic of a ma ...
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Radiation length In physics, the radiation length is a characteristic of a material, related to the energy loss of high energy particles electromagnetically interacting with it.
Definition
In materials of high atomic number (e.g. W, U, Pu) the electrons of energi ...
External links
*http://ikpe1101.ikp.kfa-juelich.de/briefbook_part_detectors/node30.html
Experimental particle physics
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