Hi Ricardo,
Thank you for your response. The values 0.99 and 1.03, are they the ratios
of the primaries requested to the scored primaries? If so, how did you get
them?
On the increment of thermal neutrons, I'm just alarmed because I don't
think they should spike up the way they do since there shouldn't be any
additional neutrons from polyethylene apart from the ones in the beam. I
expect that, in principle, the sum of all neutrons in the whole spectrum
should be equal to the number of primaries, minus the neutrons that get
deflected away from the scoring region.
Thanks.
On Wed, May 27, 2020, 01:21 Ricardo Manuel Dos Santos Augusto <
r.s.augusto_at_cern.ch> wrote:
> Dear Sizwe,
>
> With the following scoring cards (from det1 -> target, target -> det2):
>
>
> *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....
> USRBDX 99. NEUTRON -21. det1 TARGET
> nflux-i
> USRBDX 1E-14 1. &
>
> USRBDX 99. NEUTRON -21. TARGET det2
> nflux-f
> USRBDX 1E-14 1. &
>
>
> indeed one gets 0.99 and 1.03 (Neutron/primary) for nflux-i and f,
> respectively. The overall increase in neutron fluence is expectable since
> you are shooting a monoenergetic beam of fast neutrons into polyethylene,
> resulting into various secondaries being generated (including neutrons).
> Some of the secondary neutrons will add up to the neutrons exiting the
> target, hence your fluence increment.
>
> However, note that you do get a reduction of the neutron fluence at 14 MeV
> as the primary neutrons traverse the target. As you add up more layers to
> your setup the amount of higher energy neutrons will be further reduced in
> favor of lower energy neutrons. The degree of variation will depend on the
> material properties and geometry of the layers.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ricardo
>
>
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> Envoyé : mardi 26 mai 2020 18:56
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> Objet : [fluka-discuss]: Scoring primaries
>
> Dear fluka experts and community,
>
> I am doing calculations with the aim to find a suitable neutron moderator
> material thickness. In my input (attached) I have a beam of 14 MeV neutrons
> going through a polyethylene cylinder (h = 2 cm, r = 8.5 cm). I made two
> scoring regions - one is for scoring beam particles before the beam
> interacts with the target and the other is for scoring the beam particles
> after going through the target region (I chose usrbdx as estimator). I
> noticed that, although I requested 100 000 histories in my runs, the
> fluence scored before the beam interacts with the target is less than the
> requested primaries;
>
> Furthermore, the moderated spectrum (when polyethylene and water are used)
> tends to have a high fluence of thermal neutrons - even higher than the
> requested primaries. What could be the cause of this? Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sizwe
>
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