Re: Silicon damage weighting functions for other particles

Dear Paul

All (anti)baryon (except neutrons that have their own function) are
weighted with the proton damage function, all mesons with the pion damage
function.

Cheers
Stefan

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> From: owner-fluka-discuss_at_mi.infn.it [mailto:owner-fluka-discuss_at_mi.infn.it]
> On Behalf Of Paul Miyagawa
> Sent: 13 December 2011 11:55
> To: fluka-discuss_at_fluka.org
> Subject: Silicon damage weighting functions for other particles
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> Hello,
>
> I plotted the particle contributions to the SI1MEVNE fluences (using
> fluscw.f and USERWEIG). I am finding that particles other than protons,
> neutrons, charged pions and electrons are contributing to the 1 MeV fluences
> (see flu_v_r.png). I checked that adding the individual contributions from
> each particle type adds up to what the default SI1MEVNE returns (see
> fluratio.png for ratio of sum(individual particles) / default SI1MEVNE).
> Looking in the Fluka job output, I see silicon damage weighting functions
> only for protons, neutrons, charged pions and electrons. For other particles
> (such as kaons, anti-protons, lambdas, sigmas, etc), how does Fluka treat
> them? Does it assign the weighting function from a similar particle (so
> kaons use pion weighting function)? If so, are these mappings documented
> anywhere?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Paul
>
>
Received on Mon Dec 19 2011 - 15:37:04 CET