{"title":"Different widths of resonant lines in the Mössbuaer spectrum as the result of multidimensional Gaussian distribution","authors":"Sergey Yaroslavtsev","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165669","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165669","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the application of Mössbauer spectroscopy to complex materials distributions of hyperfine parameters are regularly utilized in data processing. Distributions are required due to existence of a huge number of different local positions of Fe ions with varying nearest environment. Thus, the Mössbauer spectrum should contain a lot of different corresponding subspectra. It often leads to a problematic independent determination of individual sites. In simplest case it could lead just to an increase of the width of resonant lines due to normal distribution of hyperfine parameters. However, they could appear to be correlated. In such case the shape of the spectrum will change, requiring more complex model to describe it. In this work such a model was developed and compared to already existed approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"563 ","pages":"Article 165669"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of the energy spectrum of alpha particles in an experiment on irradiation of a boron target with a proton beam at the Prometheus accelerator","authors":"A.S. Rusetskii, M.A. Negodaev, A.V. Oginov, V.A. Ryabov, K.V. Shpakov, A.E. Shemyakov, I.N. Zavestovskaya","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165651","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165651","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The energy spectrum of alpha particles from the nuclear reaction p + <sup>11</sup>B <span><math><mrow><mo>→</mo><mn>3</mn><mi>α</mi></mrow></math></span> was studied using the beam of the injector of the proton synchrotron of the Prometheus proton therapy complex. The reaction products (alpha particles) were recorded using a CR-39 track detector. The detectors were calibrated using a <sup>241</sup>Am radioactive source. It was determined that mainly alpha particles emitted from the boron target have energies from 3 to 5.5 MeV. In this case, a significant part of the alpha particles emitted from the depths of the target have significantly lower energies compared to the calculated ones due to ionization losses. Measuring the energy spectrum of alpha particles from targets containing boron is of great scientific and practical interest for identifying the mechanisms of boron–proton capture therapy and determining the additional contribution to the therapeutic effect of proton irradiation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"563 ","pages":"Article 165651"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neutron depth profiling extended with PIXE element analysis","authors":"Vasil Hlinka, Ibrahim Oksuz, R. Gregory Downing","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165672","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165672","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a paper titled “NIXE: Neutron Depth Profiling coupled with Particle Induced X-ray Emission,” Albarqi, et al. [1] proposed a modification of the Neutron Depth Profiling (NDP) technique to use the charged particle induced X-ray (PIXE) emission generated from the energetic ions produced during nuclear reactions of the NDP process to provide additional information about the depth profile of elements near the surface of a material. This paper applies a more comprehensive analysis of the concept using the Geant4 Monte Carlo code. The results of this analysis show that the approach may be possible and produces benefits such as depth concentration for elements beyond traditional NDP. However, suppression of typical low-energy background noise is critical and would limit which NDP facilities can perform the NIXE technique. The data in this paper can inform the planning of such experiments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"563 ","pages":"Article 165672"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tian Xing , Shuhuan Liu , Xuan Wang , Mathew Adefusika Adekoya , Chao Wang , Junye Zhou , Wei Chen
{"title":"Coupled radiation effects of swift heavy ions and strong electromagnetic pulses on a SiGe HBT: A TCAD-based simulation","authors":"Tian Xing , Shuhuan Liu , Xuan Wang , Mathew Adefusika Adekoya , Chao Wang , Junye Zhou , Wei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165673","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165673","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Silicon germanium (SiGe) heterogeneous bipolar transistors (HBTs) in radio-frequency front-end low-noise amplifiers may confront a joint attack from swift heavy ions (SHIs) and strong electromagnetic pluses (EMPs) in complex nuclear and electromagnetic radiation circumstances. Herein, the coupled radiation effects of SHIs and strong EMPs on a SiGe HBT were investigated based on TCAD simulations. The results showed that the simultaneous impact originating from the SHIs and the EMPs could render the SiGe HBT more vulnerable than the impact of either factor alone. As the SHIs and the EMPs acted on the SiGe HBT simultaneously, the thermal effects of the base region were predominant and could finally cause damage to the device. The electron-hole pairs injected by the SHIs increased the lattice temperature and aggravated the thermal burnout dominated by the EMPs. This work may facilitate research on radiation effects of SiGe HBTs in the complex nuclear and electromagnetic radiation environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"563 ","pages":"Article 165673"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analytical investigation of biological response of different tissues to proton beam radiation using phenomenological and biophysical models","authors":"H. Taghipour , S.M. Motevalli , P. Taherparvar","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165667","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165667","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In particle radiation therapy, the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) is used to evaluate the biological response of human tissues exposed to radiation. The microdosimetric approach may well determine the distribution of RBE-weighted doses of charged particle beams based on dose-mean specific energy with constant innovations and modifications. In this study, the results obtained from the biophysical model (such as the microdosimetric kinetic model (MKM)) with the determined domain size (r<sub>d</sub>) have been compared to phenomenological models (such as the Wedenberg, Carabe, and McNamara models) which do not consider variable domain size. The α (linear term of the cell survival curve) and D<sub>10</sub> (dose value at 10% cell survival fraction) quantities variations as a function of particle linear energy transfer (LET) have been analyzed using different RBE models based on animal cell lines, and human cancer cell lines such as human salivary gland (HSG) and glioma, together with the corresponding experimental data. Besides, the impact of variations in prescribed biological dose on the spread-out Bragg peaks (SOBP) calculated by applying the MKM using various cell lines is indicated. The findings show that the D<sub>10</sub> and α parameters estimated applying the <span><math><mrow><msubsup><mi>Z</mi><mrow><mn>1</mn><mi>D</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∗</mo></mrow></msubsup></mrow></math></span>-based MKM adapt better to the published experimental datasets than those applying the LET-based phenomenological models. The MKM calculations based on microdosimetric specific energy at the treatment planning system (TPS) can be well used to predict the physical and biological properties of heavy-ion beams.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"563 ","pages":"Article 165667"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143534636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Sekkat , A. Khallouqi , A. Halimi , O.El Rhazouani
{"title":"Fabrication and validation of new tissue equivalent heterogeneous composite materials as neonatal and pediatric cranial bone substitutes in diagnostic radiology","authors":"H. Sekkat , A. Khallouqi , A. Halimi , O.El Rhazouani","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165671","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165671","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the development of heterogeneous composite materials as pediatric cranial bone substitutes by incorporating sodium bicarbonate and calcium carbonate within an epoxy resin matrix. The aim was to tailor the material’s radiation interaction properties for various pediatric age groups. The fabrication involved mixing specific percentages of fillers for uniform dispersion in epoxy resin, followed by curing. Monte Carlo simulations evaluated the materials’ attenuation properties, revealing varying percent differences in mass attenuation compared to ICRU-reported values of compact and cortical bones. For infant bone material, the differences averaged 34.3 % and 37.5 %, while those for children aged 1–5 years were 13.4 % and 19.3 %, and for children over 5 years, 5.96 % and 12.8 %. Hounsfield Unit values ranged from 576 ± 30 for infants to 952 ± 18 for children aged 10–15 years. Good agreement was demonstrated with pediatric bone tissues, showing the composite’s potential for mimicking pediatric cranial bone.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"563 ","pages":"Article 165671"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J.L. Zhao , Z. An , J.J. Zhu , H. Huang , W.J. Tan , M.T. Liu , S. Bai , J.L. Lai , X.T. Wang
{"title":"L-subshell production cross sections of Lu and Hf by 10 keV-30 keV electron bombardment","authors":"J.L. Zhao , Z. An , J.J. Zhu , H. Huang , W.J. Tan , M.T. Liu , S. Bai , J.L. Lai , X.T. Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165668","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165668","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The L-subshell X-ray production cross sections (XRPCSs) were measured for the heavy elements Lu (Z = 71) and Hf (Z = 72) induced by the bombardment of single-energy electron beams of 10 keV-30 keV. The generated X-ray spectra from the thin targets with thick carbon substrates were collected using a silicon drift detector. Corrections for excess X-rays, arising from electron multiple scattering, bremsstrahlung and backscattered electrons from the thick substrates, were performed using Monte Carlo simulations. The experimental results were compared with theoretical values based on the distorted-wave Born approximations and two sets of atomic relaxation parameters. Overall, the experimental XRPCSs of Lu and Hf are closer to the theoretical values based on the fluorescence yields and Coster-Kroning probabilities from Dirac-Hartree-Slater (DHS) calculations and emission rates from Dirac-Fock (DF) calculations within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties in the entire incident electron energy region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"562 ","pages":"Article 165668"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143519256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An approximate analytical formula for 3D dose deposition in water by a Gaussian proton beam","authors":"E. Nichelatti , C. Ronsivalle","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165653","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165653","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A proton linear accelerator named TOP-IMPLART, developed as a prototype of a full linear machine for proton therapy, is currently in operation at the ENEA laboratories of the Frascati Research Center in Italy. In anticipation of test irradiations of volumes or, more specifically, simulated treatment plans to check the linac’s performance, it is desirable to have a streamlined tool for calculating dose deposition in three spatial dimensions and for designing volumetric spread-out Bragg peaks. To this end, a preliminary quick approach to 3D dose calculation that avoids lengthy Monte Carlo simulations would be quite convenient. Here, we present the derivation of an analytical formula for the approximate calculation of the dose volume deposited in water by a Gaussian proton beam. The formula combines Bortfeld’s Bragg curve model with Preston–Koehler’s model for the widening of pencil beams. Example tests are shown.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"562 ","pages":"Article 165653"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143509628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C.R. Kleinfeldt , V.S. Bodnar , S.D. Essenmacher , A.M. Miller , G.M. Brown , G.F. Peaslee , G.W. Severin
{"title":"Determination of the natTi(d,x)49V excitation function by liquid scintillation analysis","authors":"C.R. Kleinfeldt , V.S. Bodnar , S.D. Essenmacher , A.M. Miller , G.M. Brown , G.F. Peaslee , G.W. Severin","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165652","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165652","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The experimental cross-sections for deuteron-induced nuclear reactions on natural titanium were measured using the stacked-foil method. Deuteron beams were provided by a Pelletron tandem accelerator at incident energies up to 8 MeV. The cross-sections for the production of <sup>49</sup>V were determined by liquid scintillation analysis, with the highest measured value of 522(32) mb occurring at 5.59(9) MeV. Additionally, the cross-sections for the production of <span><math><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>44</mn><mi>m</mi><mo>,</mo><mn>46</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>47</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>48</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>Sc and <sup>48</sup>V were evaluated using gamma-ray spectroscopy and compared to some available literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"562 ","pages":"Article 165652"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143510058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Ghasemi , A. Ramazani-Moghaddam-Arani , O. Kakuee , A. Ziagkova
{"title":"Differential cross section measurement of the reactions 16O(d, p0,1)17O for Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA)","authors":"R. Ghasemi , A. Ramazani-Moghaddam-Arani , O. Kakuee , A. Ziagkova","doi":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165648","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165648","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA) is used to determine the quantitative presence of light elements in a heavy element matrix. To achieve reliable results, a high-quality dataset of the related differential cross section is crucial. When analyzing oxygen using NRA, the nuclear reactions <sup>16</sup>O(d,p<sub>0</sub>)<sup>17</sup>O and <sup>16</sup>O(d,p<sub>1</sub>)<sup>17</sup>O are often employed. However, inconsistencies exist among the available datasets of the related differential cross sections. To address this issue, we conducted differential cross section measurements for these reactions at angles of 135°, 150°, and 165°, within an energy range of 1500–2000 keV. The obtained results are discussed and compared with other available datasets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19380,"journal":{"name":"Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms","volume":"562 ","pages":"Article 165648"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}