Energy Loss of Alpha Particles in Matter

Scientific Study from the year 2019 in the subject Physics - Nuclear Physics, Molecular Physics, Solid State Physics, grade: 0.82, University of Manchester (The University of Manchester), language: English, abstract: Alpha particles, or Helium nuclei, are projected by a radioactive isotope source into a vacuum chamber filled by varying thicknesses of either metallic foils (aluminium, nickel) or ga...