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Particle penetration depth at which the likelihood of non-absorption is 1/e
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S. Eidelman; et al. (2004). Particle Data Group (ed.).
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physics
probability
e
particle
absorbed
beam of particles
intensity
Beer–Lambert law
Beer's Law
Mean free path
Attenuation coefficient
Attenuation (electromagnetic radiation)
Radiation length
"Review of particle physics"
arXiv
astro-ph/0406663
doi
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.06.001
PMID
10020536
S2CID
118588567
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