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- From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Subject: Brigsten-Mallove paper
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:27:25 GMT
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- A walk down the hall and a visit with an owner of a "little blue book" more
- or less straigntened me out on what woul happen with the 5.59 Gev alpha.
- Most of the energy does go with the alpha. But it still kicks a 100 Mev or
- so hole in the sidewalk. This assumes that it kicks off a single Pd atom.
-
- The range of the alpha would be 1500 or so cm of water - or equivalent mass.
- So still a few meters of earth/concrete. So they have that part right.
-
- But it was hard before to imagine that a few Mev particle could get away from
- the lattice without making some gammas that could be seen. It is even harder
- to imagine a 100 Mev Pd atom not making some gamma noise as it comes to rest.
- For gammas above read photons. Seems to me that is the correct generic term
- for gammas, x-rays, etc..
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- Tom Droege
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