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proton_range.pro

topproton_range

physics

result = proton_range( [material])

idl code to contain electron rages in different materials

only Ta and Al so far, more can be added from http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Star/Text/ESTAR.html

Return value

structure of range parameters of the form: IDL> help, dat, /str ** Structure <19c2208>, 8 tags, length=2288, data length=2284, refs=1: KE FLOAT Array[81] COLL_STP_PWR FLOAT Array[81] RAD_STP_PWR FLOAT Array[81] TOT_STP_PWR FLOAT Array[81] CSDA_RANGE FLOAT Array[81] RAD_YEILD FLOAT Array[81] D_EFF_PARAM FLOAT Array[81] MATERIAL STRING 'TA'

Parameters

material in optional

2 letter code of the material to return ranges - default Al

Examples

data=proton_range('Al') plot, data.ke,data.csda_range,/xlog,/ylog

Author information

History:

Thu Nov 20 14:19:19 2008, Brian Larsen written and tested

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