This Office also is engaged with the PL Divisions and the NIST Standard Reference Data Program in developing physical reference databases for dissemination over the web. It designs and develops effective interfaces between the information and the user to facilitate use of the data. We began providing information to the public in June 1994. The rate of use continues to increase rapidly. It ranges from staff and organization information to PL technical activities, publication lists , research facilities, news items , physical reference data, and bibliographic information about physical reference data.
New information is added regularly.
We develop programs to provide this information and innovations to overcome the limitations of current browsers. Photon Cross Section Databases Developed for PL Web Server . In addition to elements, results may be obtained for arbitrary user specified-compounds and mixtures. They provide stopping power and range information in a large number of elements and materials of interest to the medical, space science, and engineering communities. The data for the first 104 elements is presented as a table and comes complete with bibliographic references.