Published 2017 | Version v1
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Improvements in electron-photon-relaxation data for MCNP6

  • 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (United States)

Description

We have provided a brief discussion of four recent enhancements and corrections to the electron, photon, and atomic relaxation data of the eprdata series of data libraries included with the MCNP6 distribution. There are two changes based on the new data that have potential importance for calculations: an alternate elastic cross sections and sufficient precision in the tabulation of the angular probability distribution functions for large-angle electron elastic scattering, especially at high energies. Two changes are primarily formal corrections: it was not the average energy of a Bremsstrahlung photon that was tabulated previously but the average energy remaining to the electron after a Bremsstrahlung event. The second correction deals with an inconsistency between the data in the library and how it was used by early versions of MCNP (MCNP5 and MCNPX): the probability that the incoherently scattered photon has interacted with a particular electron shell is presented in the data library as a tabulated probability density function, while the MCNP5 and MCNPX codes treated the table as a cumulative distribution

Availability note (English)

Available from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715306009
Part of:
EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of the 13. international conference on radiation shielding and 19. topical meeting of the radiation protection and shielding division of the American Nuclear Society - 2016

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Publishing Information

Publisher
EDP Sciences
Imprint Place
Les Ulis (France)
Imprint Title
EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of the 13. international conference on radiation shielding and 19. topical meeting of the radiation protection and shielding division of the American Nuclear Society - 2016
Imprint Pagination
v. 153 [1590 p.]
Journal Page Range
p. 06009.p.1-06009.p.3

Conference

Title
13. international conference on radiation shielding; RPSD-2016: 19. topical meeting of the radiation protection and shielding division of the American Nuclear Society
Acronym
ICRS-13
Dates
3-6 Oct 2016
Place
Paris (France)

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Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
51049991
Subject category
S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BREMSSTRAHLUNG; CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT THEORY; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CORRECTIONS; ELASTIC SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; GAMMA TRANSPORT THEORY; M CODES; SPECIFICATIONS
Descriptors DEC
COMPUTER CODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT THEORY

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16 refs.; This record replaces 51039544