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Does a Bragg curve apply to beta particles too?

I am currently working on my High School thesis about ionising radiation and while working on the penetration ability of the different types of radiation, I wondered:
Does a Bragg curve apply to beta particles too? Or more specific:
Is the relation between the stopping power and distance traveled of beta particles the same as alpha particles? 

Thanks in regard!
(Apologies for any mistakes in term of grammar or vocabulary, english is not my native language)
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The Bragg curve represents the behavior of heavy charged particles, not electrons.

The transmission of electrons through matter is qualitatively very different than for nuclei. For instance the small mass of electrons makes them much more susceptible to large-angle scattering, and radiative losses (these become important at high energies).

There is a modified version of the Bethe-Bloch stopping power model which is used for electrons.

The characteristic behavior of the stopping power quickly jumping to zero at the end of the Bragg curve is due to the fact that the nucleus is grabbing onto nearby electrons and dropping its charge state to zero. This can’t happen with electron radiation.

Overall the intensity of monoenergetic electrons impinging on some material will fall off approximately exponentially with distance. There is no sudden end to the range distribution like there would be for ions, and the intensity decreases continuously for electrons while it remains roughly constant for ions until the sudden drop at the Bragg peak. On average, electron radiation loses energy more rapidly than heavy ions, because electrons are scattering primarily off of particles with the same mass (other electrons), while ions are scattering off of particles with much lower masses (the ratio of a nucleon mass to an electron mass is around 1800, and ions have masses of approximately A nucleon masses).