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XCOM: Photon Cross Sections Database

NIST Standard Reference Database 8 (XGAM)

M.J. Berger, J.H. Hubbell, S.M. Seltzer, J. Chang, J.S. Coursey, R. Sukumar, D.S. Zucker, and K. Olsen

NIST, PML, Radiation and Biomolecular Physics Division
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Abstract

A web database is provided which can be used to calculate photon cross sections for scattering, photoelectric absorption and pair production, as well as total attenuation coefficients, for any element, compound or mixture (Z ≤ 100), at energies from 1 keV to 100 GeV.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Database for Elements
  3. Interpolation and Combination
  4. How to Run the XCOM Program
  5. References
This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Washington, DC 20585; NIST's Standard Reference Data Program, and by NIST's Systems Integration for Manufacturing Applications (SIMA) Program.
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Online: March 1998  -  Last Update: November 2010

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