Evaluation of nuclear reaction cross-sections and fragment yields in carbon beams using the SHIELD-HIT Monte Carlo code. Comparison with experiments.

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Published in Phys Med Biol on June 15, 2012

Authors

Martha Hultqvist1, Marta Lazzeroni, Alexander Botvina, Irena Gudowska, Nikolai Sobolevsky, Anders Brahme

Author Affiliations

1: Medical Radiation Physics, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, PO Box 260, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden.

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