On the energies spread of the Gaussian distributed in nuclear scattering experiments

Abstract

It is well known that lteams of particles from cyclotrons have a Gaussian energy distribution. Scattering on a target causes the incident beam to become more spread out in energy. On the other hand, the improved accuracy of measurements in recent years makes it indispensible to have exact knowledge of the energy spectrum of the outgoing beam. In this paper the employment, of certain assumptions leads to the derivation of simple formulae which make it possible to calculate the resulting energy spectrum of the outgoing beam.