Dear Joel
if you get a factor 100 very likely you made wrong some conversion
(ie from energy deposition to dose or beam normalization), please check
them carefully!!, no way the code can make such a difference
Alfredo
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joel DeWitt wrote:
> fluka-discuss:
>
> Many thanks to all those who responded to "56-Fe not stopping." The
> caveat regarding the energy specification of heavy ions completely
> slipped past me when reading the manual.
>
> I've made FLUKA runs using the suggested changes for 30 g/cm2
> polyethylene, aluminum, and copper. The good part is that FLUKA
> outputs the expected dose-depth behavior; the bad part is that the
> energy deposition per unit ion is roughly two orders of magnitude
> lower than experiment. Why do you think the energy deposition is
> down?
>
> Ideas or suggestions?
>
> Much appreciated,
> Joel DeWitt
>
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