Re: [FLUKA] Secondary electron emission

From: Francesco Cerutti <Francesco.Cerutti_at_cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:00:40 +0200

Hallo

>> I'm not sure about that also because I think that the manual
>> is not fully clear on fluence vs current.

I suggest you definitely go through this memorable thread

http://www.fluka.org/web_archive/earchive/new-fluka-discuss/0542.html

since the difference between fluence and current scoring cannot be left
overlooked

Cheers

Francesco

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Vittorio Boccone wrote:

> Dear Stefano,
> try to get the new version of flair, it should not be marked as an
> error anymore.
> V.
> On 13/06/2012 19:42, Stefano Sinigardi wrote:
>> Dear Alfredo,
>> thanks a lot for your help. My input file is attached (I hope it works!)
>> Flair is telling me that there's an error in the EMFCUT, but it runs
>> correctly and also those values were set from Flair itself...
>> Anyway, I hope I'm on the right path with what I need to do...
>> At the moment I'm just trying to figure out if multiplying by the
>> solid angle and the bin width the number that I get using fluence is
>> "really" the number of electrons that are created per primary particle
>> (proton). I'm not sure about that also because I think that the manual
>> is not fully clear on fluence vs current.
>> Now I'll also need a way to extract the phase space details of the
>> protons
>> and the electrons (x, y, z, px, py, pz) and another way to use a
>> similar distribution as an input beam... But I'll work on that in the
>> following days, if you can confirm that, as a basis, this input file
>> should work to describe delta electron production from the
>> interaction of a proton beam on a copper target.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Stefano
>>
>
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