Title :
Radiographers equations for megavolt electron beams
Author_Institution :
AWE Aldermaston, Berks, UK
Abstract :
Summary form only given. The manner in which the dose produced from any given electron beam scales with voltage is very important in determining suitable diode and driver combinations for the Hydrodynamic Research Facility (HRF). The dose is a function of electron energy, angle, converter material and geometry, number of electrons and any filtering material in the problem. MCNP/sup TM/ has been used to model several geometric configurations in order to develop scaling laws that depend on machine voltage, total charge and electron distribution.
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; electron beams; radiography; Hydrodynamic Research Facility; converter material; diode; driver combinations; electron distribution; electron energy; filtering material; geometric configurations; megavolt electron beams; radiographers equations; Diodes; Electron beams; Equations; Filtering; Geometry; Hydrodynamics; Kinetic theory; Plasma simulation; Radiography; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science, 2004. ICOPS 2004. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. The 31st IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8334-6
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2004.1339749
