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Originally Posted by SteveS
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Off topic, I found that the medical proton therapy is surprisingly similar to the described properties of the meson gun: energy deposited in the target increases exponentially with depth to a peak, and then drops off exponentially (at least that's what the graphs look like). No magic mesons are required.
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That's probably just a normal bell curve for particle absorption in a medium of (relatively)uniform density. If you put a dense outer layer (like armor) before the soft inside you'd see proportionately more absorption in the armor.
You'd also se at least some ionization, secondary radiation and waste heat all along the path of sbsorption rather than at the peak of the bell curve only. Mesons still need to be magic. :)