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ABSTRACT:
This presentation deals with fundamental properties of the most important particles of ionizing radiation with are produced within the processes of radioactive decays, nuclear reactions and acceleration of charged particles. Interactions in high-energy physics are not included. Apart of general aspects and effects of ionizing radiation, the presentation is focused in more detail on interaction of heavy charged particles and their energy losses in matter, interaction of electrons and production of bremsstrahlung, interaction of photons with matter including their wave properties in low-energy region, and interaction of thermal and fast neutrons.
BIO:
Tomas Trojek is a professor of Applied Physics and the head of the Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU). He graduated in Nuclear Engineering in 2001 and defended his PhD thesis five years later at the CTU. A part of his PhD thesis was done at the ISIB in Brussels and at the UPV in Valencia. He has worked in the Laboratory of X-ray spectrometry at the CTU since 2001, where he was initially engaged with X-ray fluorescence analysis of art and archaeological objects. He took part in the experiment DIRAC in the CERN laboratory in Switzerland. He is the Secretary of the International Radiation Physics Society.
