Comment on the paper “Radiation induced by relativistic electrons propagating through random layerd stacks : numerical simulation results” by Varfolomeev et al. [Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 256 (2007) 705]

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DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2007.12.060
Reference Z.S. Gevorkian and J. Verhoeven, Comment on the paper "Radiation induced by relativistic electrons propagating through random layerd stacks : numerical simulation results" by Varfolomeev et al. [Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 256 (2007) 705], Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect B 266, 1137-1138 (2008)

We show that the numerical code used in the above mentioned paper does not take into account the multiple scattering effects of electromagnetic fields properly and is, therefore, incorrect.
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