Judging the reliability of stopping power tables and programs for protons and alpha particles using statistical methods

Thickness measurement using alpha spectroscopy and SRIM

“…Therefore, ThiMeT code uses the SRIM stopping power values. The reliability of the stopping power programs and the tables have been investigated in references [14][15][16][17][18] and references therein. ThiMeT code divides the total energy loss into segments, and it calculates the thickness of each segment using the stopping power value at the incident energy of the segment obtained from SRIM.…”

“…Because of the SRIM stopping power for light ions well described above 1 MeV, the accuracy of the calculation is also good. For example, stopping power for proton ions on Al above 1 MeV, the systematic difference between SRIM and experiment is 0.5%, and random error which contains some information about the experimental uncertainty is 0.7% [15].…”

The Stopping Power of Matter for Positive Ions

“…Here, E is the energy of the ion. These tables were originally published by Paul & Schinner (2005), but many new data have since been added. This has not changed the results much, but it adds to the reliability.…”

Practicality of evaluating soft errors in commercial sub-90 nm CMOS for space applications

“…To be published in the 2010 International Reliability Physics Symposium conference proceedings. shown as open circles, are from Helmut Paul's database [22,23]. The simulated linear energy transfer curves were calculated using SRIM-2008 [24,25] and NIST PSTAR [26,27].…”

“…Fig. 3 shows experimental measurements of proton LET in silicon, compiled from Helmut Paul's database [22,23], as well as two theoretical calculations of proton LET in silicon using SRIM-2010 [24,25] and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's PSTAR tool [26]; the latter is based on ICRU Report 49 [27]. As the figure shows, at high energy there is good agreement between experiment and theory.…”