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Evans, T.M.; Hendricks, J.S.
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)1997
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)1997
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[en] A new, enhanced, weight window generator suite has been developed for MCNP trademark. The new generator correctly estimates importances in either an user-specified, geometry-independent orthogonal grid or in MCNP geometric cells. The geometry-independent option alleviates the need to subdivide the MCNP cell geometry for variance reduction purposes. In addition, the new suite corrects several pathologies in the existing MCNP weight window generator. To verify the correctness of the new implementation, comparisons are performed with the analytical solution for the cell importance. Using the new generator, differences between Monte Carlo generated and analytical importances are less than 0.1%. Also, assumptions implicit in the original MCNP generator are shown to be poor in problems with high scattering media. The new generator is fully compatible with MCNP's AVATAR trademark automatic variance reduction method. The new generator applications, together with AVATAR, gives MCNP an enhanced suite of variance reduction methods. The flexibility and efficacy of this suite is demonstrated in a neutron porosity tool well-logging problem
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1997; 10 p; Radiation protection and shielding topical meeting: technologies for the new century; Nashville, TN (United States); 19-23 Apr 1998; CONF-980403--; CONTRACT W-7405-ENG-36; ALSO AVAILABLE FROM OSTI AS DE98004373; NTIS; US GOVT. PRINTING OFFICE DEP
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