Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2005-08-05
Phys.Rev.C73:015501,2006
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
7 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.73.015501
We report on the first detailed measurements of electron backscattering from plastic scintillator targets, extending our previous work on beryllium and silicon targets. The scintillator experiment posed several additional experimental challenges associated with charging of the scintillator target, and those challenges are addressed in detail. In addition, we quantitatively compare the energy and angular distributions of this data, and our previous data, with electron transport simulations based on the Geant4 and Penelope Monte Carlo simulation codes. The Penelope simulation is found globally to give a superior description of the data. Such information is crucial for a broad array of weak-interaction physics experiments, where electron backscattering can give rise to the dominant detector-related systematic uncertainty.
Betancourt M. J.
Filippone B. W.
Hoedl S. A.
Ito Takeyasu M.
Martin William J.
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