Jackson Bailey
I completed my PhD in 2018 with the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Curtin University in Western Australia. My research was on stopping power calculations for antiprotons, protons, and carbon ions in various atomic and molecular targets. For more information about me please click the button below!
FEATURED PUBLICATION
My current featured publication is titled Antiproton stopping power data for radiation therapy simulations and was published in Physica Medica.
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Abstract:
Abstract Stopping powers of H, He, H2, and H2O targets for antiprotons have been calculated using a convergent close-coupling method. For He and H2 targets electron-electron correlations are fully accounted for using a multiconfiguration approximation. Two-electron processes are included using an independent-event model. The water molecule is described using a neon-like structure model with a pseudo-spherical potential. Results are tabulated for the purpose of Monte Carlo simulations to model antiproton transport through matter for radiation therapy.
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J. J. Bailey, A. S. Kadyrov, I. B. Abdurakhmanov, D. V. Fursa, and I. Bray, Antiproton stopping power data for radiation therapy simulations, Physica Medica 32, 1827 (2016).
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CURRENT RESEARCH
Currently I am performing calculations of proton stopping power in atomic hydrogen. This system has the added difficulty that the incident proton can grab a target electron and form hydrogen. This rearrangement process further complicates the calculations, as one now needs to perform calculations of hydrogen scattering from hydrogen. The total stopping power is then the sum of the contributions from the two charged states of the projectile multiplied by their corresponding charge-state fraction.
proton scattering on hydrogen
hydrogen scattering on hydrogen