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

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, , Citation F Blanco et al 2015 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 635 032092 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/635/3/032092

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1 Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

2 Centro de Investigaciones, Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Avenida Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain

3 Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal

4 CSIC, Instituto de Fisíca Fundamental, Serrano 113-bis, 28006 Madrid, Spain

5 MBN Research Center, Altenhöferallee 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

6 Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia

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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.

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