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radiation length

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radiation length [‚rād·ē′ā·shən ‚leŋkth]
(nucleonics)
The mean path length required to reduce the energy of relativistic charged particles by the factor 1/e, or 0.368, as they pass through matter. Also known as cascade unit; radiation unit.


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