Re: FLUKA: Access to models ?

[Alfredo Ferrari <alfredo.ferrari@cern.ch>]

Hi Laurent,

I'll try on monday to sketch for you a way to get (wrong or right it will
be) the recoil info, depending on the input options you are using.

                Ciao
               Alfredo

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Laurent APHECETCHE wrote:

> Alfredo Ferrari wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > the excitation energy CANNOT be accessed at mgdraw level. TVCMS if
> > everything is going correctly should come out =0 (no residual excitation
> > energy). The excitation energy after PEANUT cannot be accessed and it
> > would not be physically meaningful, since it depends a lot on the
> > termination conditions and thresholds of the preequilibrium part (where
> > the code assumes equilibrium is reached). The excitation energy after the
> > cascade part which perhaps was the one Laurent was referring to, is also
> > of course strongly dependent on the boundary between cascade and
> > prequilibrium and does not bear any real physics meaning.
> >
> > Also Ekres,Px,y,zres are not necessarily updated correctly: their status
> > depends on the physics input cards set by the user and if 
>fission/fragmentation
> > occurred etc. DON'T rely on any of these variables.
> >
> >                      Ciao
> >                     Alfredo
>
> Hi Alfredo,
>
> Thanks for the reply, even if it seems discouraging...
> What I would like to have is the distribution of nuclei recoil momenta,
> in order to be able to compute damage energies. Is there a way to do
> that, e.g. some combination of input cards insuring that Ekres,Px,y,zres
> _are_ meaningful, or is it hopeless ?
>
> Best regards,
>
>

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