-- Stefan E. Mueller Department of Information Services and Computing - Computational Science and Institute of Radiation Physics Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Tel: +49 (0351) 260 3847 Stefan.Mueller_at_hzdr.de http://www.hzdr.de Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt, Dr. Diana Stiller Vereinsregister: VR 1693 beim Amtsgericht Dresden On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, imen hammami wrote: > Dear FLUKA experts,Excuse me, I have to ask for your help. The issue > description is as follows: > > To assess the dose rate in the vicinity of a Cobalt-60 source, we defined > some spheres to be used as dosimeters. Then we set a USRBIN card to score > the dose in these regions (spheres). The obtained value is normalized using > the following equation: > D(Gy/h)= Ed * 2 * 1.6021 E-7 * A *3600 > where > - Ed is total energy deposited in the dosimeter, the value is given by > Fluka. > - 2 factor to take account for two photons emitted from Cobalt-60 source > - 1.6021 E-7 conversion factor > - A is the activity of the source > - 3600 factor to get the dose rate > The dose rate values obtained using this equation seem to be wrong, because > they are too far from experimental values and other MC code values. So I > doubt that the equation used for normalization is not right or there is an > issue with the scoring card . I will be grateful if you can help me to fix > the issue. > > Thank you in advance for your response. > > Best regards > unnamed.png > > >
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