The computerized calculation of stopping power nuclear reaction kinematics

This thesis describes the development of computer programs and the theory for the calculations of stopping power and nuclear reaction kinematics. The nuclear reaction kinematics program computes position and nonrelativistic energy data as well as center-of-mass solid angle transformations and information on detector resolution for nuclear reactions and elastic scattering experiments involving two-body final states. The stopping power program calculates stopping power (an index of the charged particle energy absorption properties of a material) of elemental absorbers for protons, deuterons, tritons, He3, and alpha particles from minimal input data. The calculated stopping powers are accurate to within one per cent over the nonrelativistic energy range of 2 to 12 Mev.Ball State UniversityMuncie, IN 47306Thesis (M.S.)--Ball State University, 1969