Re: setting cut off

Dear Alberto

It is the name of a region which its material is iron. Anyway the
whole input is attached to clarify my problem.

Best Regards

On 8/10/11, Alberto Fasso' <fasso_at_mail.cern.ch> wrote:
> Hamideh,
>
> one line of input is not sufficient: you should have sent the whole input
> file.
> Is METAL the name of a region or of a material?
> If it is the name of a material, then be aware that the transport cutoff
for
> electrons and photons is set by region, not by material (by material is set
> the
> production cutoff, which is not relevant here).
>
> Alberto
>
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Hamideh Jalali wrote:
>
>> Dear FLUKA Experts
>>
>> In my problem a 3 GeV electron beam strikes an air target and I'd like to
>> score dose equivalent due to gas bremsstrahlung in tissue. I used
>> gasbrem.inp (an example in fluka documentation) to set cut-offs for my
>> problem. As the example I put iron of 0.01cm thickness in front of tissue
>> and kill electron beam by setting high transport cut off 3.5 GeV for
>> electron/positron.
>>
>> EMFCUT 3.5 1E-6 METAL
>>
>> but the result of USRBIN shows that beam particles penetrate tissue.
>> Attached plot is the USRBIN result when beam particle is scored in tissue
>> followed by iron(killing region).
>> Please guide me where the problem is.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Hamideh

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Received on Thu Aug 11 2011 - 12:56:08 CEST