Energy deposited by high energy electrons in matter

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RichardOsmond
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Hello all,
i am trying to calculate the energy deposited by high energy electrons traveling through Silicon. I am dealing with energies in the range of 10^6 - 10^12 eV. I have read that radiative losses will dominate at higher energies and the critical energy where ionization loss = radiative loss is ~ 40 MeV for silicon. Can someone please direct me to the equations i can use to calculate both ionization and radiative losses for high energy electrons? Thanks.

Rich.
 
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Thanks Bob,
I have read that dE/dX from radiative energy losses for electrons can be approximated as E/Xo, where E is the energy of the electron and Xo is the radiation length in the material. Is this approximation valid at very high energies? i.e. 10^7 MeV - 10^10 MeV.

Thanks.
 

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