Re: [fluka-discuss]: the default unit of particles' energy, GeV or GeV/n?

From: <alfredo.ferrari_at_mi.infn.it>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 13:42:48 +0200

Sorry

I realized I made a typo in my answer it is "EN-NUCL" and not "EM-NUCL'
which has to be put in the SDUM for switching to scoring energy/nucleon...
and indeed IT IS documented in the manual (sorry again)

Alfredo

> Dear Zhiyuan
>
> for all estimators, USRBDX, USRTRACK, USRYIELD etc, by default the energy
> scored is the *total* kinetic energy in GeV.
>
> For USRBDX, USRTRACK, if you issue an empty USRBDX, USRTRACK card with
> only EM-NUCL in the SDUM field, then the *all* USRBDX, USRTRACK estimators
> will be in kinetic energy/nucleon (GeV/n), with the convention that
> mesons. leptons and antibaryons are assumed to be 1 nucleon (that is it
> their kinetic energy undivided which is scored). This feature is
> unfortunately still undocumented in the manual.
>
> For the BEAM card, for all projectiles, HEAVYION excluded, the energy or
> the momentum, depending on the sign, are the *total* kinetic energy or the
> *total* momentum. For HEAVYION projectiles they are the kinetic energy per
> unit mass (~ per nucleon) or the momentum per unit mass.
>
> I hope this helps
> Alfredo
>
>> Dear experts,
>>
>> I wonder what is the default unit of particles' energy in Fluka. Is it
>> GeV, or GeV/n?
>>
>> Specially, when calculating particle's fluence(for example, Helium
>> particle) by USRTRACK card, its energy boundaries are expressed in GeV
>> or
>> GeV/n?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>> Zhiyuan
>>
>>
>>
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