Monte Carlo approach to the spatial deposition of energy by electrons in molecular hydrogen
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 45 (7), 3183-3188
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1663745
Abstract
The Monte Carlo (MC) and continuous slowdown approximation (CSDA) approaches to the spatial depostition of energy by electrons are compared using the same detailed atomic cross section (DACS). It is found that the CSDA method overestimates the amount of energy that is deposited near the end of the path for electrons above a few hundred electron volts. The MC results are in approximate agreement with experimental data in such a way as to be relatively independent of the actual gas used. Our MC results are extended to obtain the three‐dimensional deposition of energy by sub‐keV electrons in molecular hydrogen.Keywords
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