Re: particle distribution after the collimator

dear Vitaly

it is not clear for me if you compiled fluka with your modified routine?

another thing is to get distribution of particles going in/out from a
user selected boundary you can use USRBDX card and utilize FLAIR

ciao
e.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Gostishchev, Vitaliy Dr.
<V.Gostishchev_at_gsi.de> wrote:
> Dear FLUKA experts,
>
> Recently I asked the FLUKA community about the way to obtain the particle
> distribution after the collimators.
>
> ...I would kindly ask you to help me in solution of one problem. We are
> going to calculate the passage of the particles through the graphite
> collimators in details. This means that we want to know the change of
> original particle distribution including particles going directly through
> the graphite. There is a certain particle distribution before the
> collimator. Then the particles pass mostly through the collimator slit but
> part of them pass directly through the collimator material. Graphite is not
> so effective as iron in sense of particle cutting. The radiation length for
> graphite is about 30 cm only. Therefore, we need longer collimators but,
> unfortunately, we have not enough space for them. We are interested in
> particles which can come to the transfer beam acceptance together with
> antiprotons, for example, pions. Pions have similar rigidity in our case and
> theoretically can be transport to the ring and make some harm there. Could
> you recommend some proper way to obtain such a particle distribution after
> collimator. Do we need some additional code?  The idea is to have a particle
> distribution before and after collimator in order to understand how many
> particles can come to the septum magnet of the following storage ring. It
> gives us an information about possible problems...
>
> There were several useful recommendations but, unfortunately, I didn't solve
> the problem up to now. I tried to use the MGDRAW subroutine and wrote some
> lines in mgdraw.f (namely, in entry BXDRAW). I'm not sure that this is
> correct and the best variant. In addition, maybe something wrong with my
> input file. Nevertheless, there are some errors occurred during compilation.
> Maybe I'm using the CALL GEOR2N in wrong way because there are some errors
> due to different type of variables. I didn't understand how it really works.
>
> I appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Vitaliy Gostishchev
>
> p.s. In the attachment you can find my input and the modified MGDRAW.F
> files. <<distribv1.inp>> <<mgdraw.f>>
Received on Wed Nov 11 2009 - 13:03:57 CET