Download or read book Particle Penetration and Radiation Effects written by Peter Sigmund and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author’s forty-plus years of experience as a researcher in the interaction of charged particles with matter, this book emphasizes the theoretical description of fundamental phenomena. Special attention is given to classic topics such as Rutherford scattering; the theory of particle stopping; the statistical description of energy loss and multiple scattering and numerous more recent developments.