Re: sum files not reporting the final units after applying conversion coefficients via an AUXSCORE card

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Mina Nozar wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have two questions on reporting of units in the summary (_sum.lis) files.
>
> Looking at Neutron Fluence (unit 33) and Neutron Dose Eq (unit 32) using the respective cards below,
> I see the same units reported for both cases. i.e. Tot. response (p/cmq/pr).
>
> Firstly, I am not sure what "p" in the above unit stands for. It should be
> particle track length. True?

No. It stands for "particles". Fluence is particles per cm2 (cmq unfortunately
is a leftover from Italian that should be corrected). Tracklength per cm3
is the the same thing as particles per cm2 (cm/cm3 = cm-2)

> Secondly, why does the output file for unit 32
> also report the results in the same units instead of pSv/GeV.prim? Is it a
> fact that FLUKA doesn't handle unit conversions in the sum. files?

No, programs usxsuw, ustsuw etc. were written to analyze fluences (or currents).
They cannot know if the fluences are folded with conversion coefficients: there
is nothing in the *fort* files to indicate that.
Anyway, AUXSCORE was introduced later, ands the programs have not been modified.

Alberto
Received on Mon Oct 24 2011 - 23:15:28 CEST