2014/07/31 by Emilio Mendoza, D. Cano‐Ott, Daniel Cano-Ott +3 · 3 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Nuclear Materials and Properties #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
paper · doi:10.1109/tns.2014.2335538
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The Monte Carlo simulation of the interaction of neutrons with matter relies on evaluated nuclear data libraries and models. The evaluated libraries are compilations of measured physical parameters (such as cross sections) combined with predictions of nuclear model calculations which have been adjusted to reproduce the experimental data. The results obtained from the simulations depend largely on the accuracy of the underlying nuclear data used, and thus it is important to have access to the nuclear data libraries available, either of general use or compiled for specific applications, and to perform exhaustive validations which cover the wide scope of application of the simulation code. In this paper we describe the work performed in order to extend the capabilities of the GEANT4 toolkit for the simulation of the interaction of neutrons with matter at neutron energies up to 20 MeV and a first verification of the results obtained. Such a work is of relevance for applications as diverse as the simulation of a neutron detector, an entire particle physics experiment, a fission or fusion nuclear reactor, a neutron shielding or a hadron therapy cancer treatment facility.