A question about conversion from NIEL-DEP to NIEL

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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2011 23:40:51 +0200 (CEST)

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Dear FLUKA users,

I want to calculate NIEL value for 1 MeV protons on 1cm Al target.
In discussion list, there is a question and a response entitled NIEL
dimension.
There is following response available;

"NIEL-DEP in FLUKA (generalized particle 238) is just an amount of
deposited energy (the fraction of deposited energy which is not deposited
by ionization). GeV is the dimension of NIEL-DEP, which is NIEL
multiplied by fluence."

I write an input file as attachment.
After simulation, I obtained USRBIN proton fluence and NIEL-DEP values.
Than I divided NIEL-DEP by FLUENCE and obtained NIEL value.

FLUENCE=1.4498E-3
NIEL-DEP=5.5935E-7

NIEL=NIEL-DEP/FLUENCE
NIEL=5.5935E-7/1.4498E-3
NIEL=3.858E-4 (GeV unit)
NIEL=0.3858 (MeV unit)

In literature, there is a study about NIEL calculations of some materials
including Al.

NIEL(Jun et al., 2003) =0.0548 MeV-cm2/g

These results are incompatible or I am doing some mistakes in simulation
or unit conversion.

Thank you in advance.

                                               
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