Published April 2009 | Version v1
Book

Statistics of Monte Carlo methods used in radiation transport calculation

Creators

  • 1. Health Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)

Description

Radiation transport calculation can be carried out by using either deterministic or statistical methods. Radiation transport calculation based on statistical methods is basic theme of the Monte Carlo methods. The aim of this lecture is to describe the fundamental statistics required to build the foundations of Monte Carlo technique for radiation transport calculation. Lecture note is organized in the following way. Section (1) will describe the introduction of Basic Monte Carlo and its classification towards the respective field. Section (2) will describe the random sampling methods, a key component of Monte Carlo radiation transport calculation, Section (3) will provide the statistical uncertainty of Monte Carlo estimates, Section (4) will describe in brief the importance of variance reduction techniques while sampling particles such as photon, or neutron in the process of radiation transport

Part of:
Applications of Monte Carlo methods in nuclear science and engineering

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Department of Atomic Energy
Imprint Place
Mumbai (India)
ISBN
978-81-8372-047-2
Imprint Title
Applications of Monte Carlo methods in nuclear science and engineering
Imprint Pagination
448 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 1-22

Conference

Title
applications of Monte Carlo methods in nuclear science and engineering
Acronym
DAE-BRNS theme meeting
Dates
21-24 Apr 2009
Place
Mumbai (India)

INIS

Country of Publication
India
Country of Input or Organization
India
INIS RN
41020890
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ELASTIC SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RANDOMNESS
Descriptors DEC
BARYONS; BOSONS; CALCULATION METHODS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NUCLEONS; SCATTERING

Optional Information

Notes
13 refs., 4 tabs.