Nuclear interaction length is the mean distance travelled by a hadronic particle before undergoing an inelastic nuclear interaction.
See also
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Nuclear collision length Nuclear collision length is the mean free path of a particle before undergoing a nuclear reaction, for a given particle in a given medium. The collision length is smaller than the nuclear interaction length because the latter excludes the elastic an ...
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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 energie ...
External links
Particle Data Group site
Experimental particle physics
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