2014/07/10 by S. G. Mashnik, Mashnik, Stepan G.
Physics and Astronomy · Medicine · #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry #Nuclear physics research studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1407.2832
The latest, production, version of the Los Alamos Monte Carlo N-Particle\ntransport code MCNP6 has been used to simulate a variety of particle-nucleus\nand nucleus-nucleus reactions of academic and applied interest to the Facility\nfor Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), medical isotope production, space-radiation\nshielding, cosmic-ray propagation, and accelerator applications, including\nseveral reactions induced by radioactive isotopes, analyzing production of both\nstable and radioactive residual nuclei. Here, we discuss examples of validation\nand verification of MCNP6 compared to recent neutron spectra measured at the\nHeavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba, Japan; to spectra of light fragments\nfrom several reactions measured recently at GANIL, France; INFN Laboratori\nNazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy; COSY of the Julich Research Center, Germany;\nand to cross sections of products from several reactions measured lately at\nGSI, Darmstadt, Germany; ITEP, Moscow, Russia; LANSCE, LANL, Los Alamos, USA.\nAs a rule, MCNP6 provides quite good predictions for most of the reactions we\nanalyzed so far, allowing us to conclude that it can be used as a reliable and\nuseful simulation tool for FRIB, medical, and space applications involving\nstable and radioactive isotopes.\n