monoenergetic
- adjective
- /ˌmɒnoʊˌɛnərˈdʒɛtɪk/
- Specialized
- The experiment required a source of particles that were all monoenergetic to ensure accurate measurements.
- monoenergetic beam
Examples
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The solid red curve shows the Bragg peak of a 200-MeV monoenergetic proton beam.
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Such monoenergetic beams give dose distributions that are too narrowly spread in depth to treat most tumors, which are typically many centimeters in diameter.
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Without the neutrino, energy conservation implies that the electrons must be monoenergetic, and this was clearly in contradiction with experimental observations.
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In practice, the distribution is spread out by superposing a sequence of monoenergetic beams of suitably weighted flux.
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The dotted red curve shows such a distribution, with a spread-out Bragg peak (SOBP): the monoenergetic components leading to the distribution are shown in black.
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There is good reason to believe, he contends, that type-Ia supernovae, unlike their type-II cousins, are monoenergetic and can therefore serve as standard candles for distance determination.
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In particle physics, a monoenergetic beam simplifies the analysis of collision outcomes due to uniform energy levels.
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Researchers used a monoenergetic neutron source to study the material properties under controlled energy conditions.
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Etymology
Monoenergetic comes from mono- meaning 'one' and energy meaning 'power', like in monochrome which means 'one color'. So, monoenergetic describes particles or a beam that all have the same energy.
