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Mass Energy Transfer Coefficient

Applicable units are those of quantitykind:MassEnergyTransferCoefficient

"Mass Energy Transfer Coefficient" is that fraction of the mass attenuation coefficient which contributes to the production of kinetic energy in charged particles.

http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/XrayMassCoef/chap3.html

http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=31895

$\frac{\mu_{tr}}{\rho} = -\frac{1}{\rho}\frac{1}{R}\frac{dR_{tr}}{dl}$, where $dR_{tr}$ is the mean energy that is transferred to kinetic energy of charged particles by interactions of the incident radiation $R$ in traversing a distance $dl$ in the material of density $\rho$.

$\frac{\mu_{tr}}{\rho}$

"Mass Energy Transfer Coefficient" is that fraction of the mass attenuation coefficient which contributes to the production of kinetic energy in charged particles.