Nuclear collision length

Nuclear collision length is the mean free path of a particle before undergoing elastic scattering or a nuclear reaction, for a given particle in a given medium. The collision length is smaller than the nuclear interaction length because the latter excludes the elastic and quasi-elastic (diffractive) reactions from its definition.

See also

• Nuclear interaction length
• Radiation length

External links

• http://ikpe1101.ikp.kfa-juelich.de/briefbook_part_detectors/node30.html Archived 2007-09-16 at the Wayback Machine
• "Cross section, Flux, Luminosity, Scattering Rates", Paul Avery and Andrey Korytov, 2013-09-03, https://phys.ufl.edu/~avery/course/4390/f2015/lectures/cross_section_flux.pdf