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Angular and Radial Distributions of Particles in Cascade Showers
Phys. Rev. 82, 23 – Published 1 April, 1951
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.82.23
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the calculation of the angular and radial distributions of electrons and photons at the maximum of a cascade shower. In Sec. II(A) we calculate the moments of the distribution functions in a shower neglecting collision loss of electrons, i.e., for energies much greater than the critical energy . In Sec. II(B) we derive expressions for the moments when collision loss is not negligible. These expressions are in the form of a series in , and are valid down to a few times the critical energy. In Sec. III we use the moments to calculate the distribution functions for energies down to a few times the critical energy.
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