Re: latex stopping power

[Roger Sit <rsithp@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Have you tried ICRU 37 entitled Stopping Powers for Electrons and Positrons
(1984) ??


At 01:39 PM 4/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>     Could someone direct me to a table of stopping powers for latex with a 
>     density of about 0.94 g/cc? I gather that the vulcanization process 
>     can add minerals to the latex, but that 95% of the material is .88 
>     Carbon and .12 Hydrogen by weight. The application is to find what 
>     sort of protection against the beta particles was afforded by the 
>     double gloves worn by an investigator working with P-32. 
>     Thanks
>     
>     Mark How
>     University of California, San Francisco
>     (415) 476-5303 voice
>     (415) 476-0581 fax
>
>
>
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Roger Sit
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
rsithp@slac.stanford.edu