Title: Practical uses outside physics research
Product review: This book explains a major justification of nuclear and accelerator research, other than searching for knowledge for its own sake. One way to test the practicality of research is to look for applications of it, outside the field.Which is this book's subject. Protons and muons can be used as probes into various macroscopic materials. This is distinguished from physics research where those particles are used as probes at the microscopic level, of unstable particles. Here, you can see descriptions of Rutherford Back Scattering. Techniques from the dawn of modern physics. Now very useful as probes of materials. Likewise, muons can also be used as probes.Aside from probes, they can also be used actively in processing steps. For example, to anneal a heterostructure at a precise depth, where you can adjust this depth by varying the kinetic energy of the incident protons.
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