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Form Factors Calculated on the Light-Front
A consistent treatment of decay is given on the
light-front. The to transition form factors are calculated in the
entire physical range of momentum transfer for the first time. The
valence-quark contribution is obtained using relativistic light-front wave
functions. Higher quark-antiquark Fock-state of the -meson bound state is
represented effectively by the configuration, and its effect
is calculated in the chiral perturbation theory. Wave function renormalization
is taken into account consistently. The contribution dominates
near the zero-recoil point ( GeV), and decreases rapidly as
the recoil momentum increases. We find that the calculated form factor
follows approximately a dipole -dependence in the entire range
of momentum transfer.Comment: Revtex, 19 pages, 9 figure
A simplified model of the source channel of the Leksell Gamma Knife: testing multisource configurations with PENELOPE
A simplification of the source channel geometry of the Leksell Gamma
Knife, recently proposed by the authors and checked for a single
source configuration (Al-Dweri et al 2004), has been used to calculate the dose
distributions along the , and axes in a water phantom with a
diameter of 160~mm, for different configurations of the Gamma Knife including
201, 150 and 102 unplugged sources. The code PENELOPE (v. 2001) has been used
to perform the Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, the output factors for the
14, 8 and 4~mm helmets have been calculated. The results found for the dose
profiles show a qualitatively good agreement with previous ones obtained with
EGS4 and PENELOPE (v. 2000) codes and with the predictions of
GammaPlan. The output factors obtained with our model agree
within the statistical uncertainties with those calculated with the same Monte
Carlo codes and with those measured with different techniques. Owing to the
accuracy of the results obtained and to the reduction in the computational time
with respect to full geometry simulations (larger than a factor 15), this
simplified model opens the possibility to use Monte Carlo tools for planning
purposes in the Gamma Knife.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, 5 table
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