USE OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR OPTIMAL GEOMETRY STUDY IN CALCULATION OF ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR ELEMENT, COMPOUND AND MIXTURE
MCNP is a code extensively used to simulate experiments involving transport of radiation using the Monte Carlo method. This code allows the study of different geometries, materials, and radiation types (e.g. gamma, neutron, and electron), enabling the building of approximate models before the experi...
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| author | Caroline Mattos Barbosa Cesar Raitz Roos Sophia de Freitas Dam William Luna Salgado Cesar Marques Salgado Delson Braz |
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| description | MCNP is a code extensively used to simulate experiments involving transport of radiation using the Monte Carlo method. This code allows the study of different geometries, materials, and radiation types (e.g. gamma, neutron, and electron), enabling the building of approximate models before the experimental implementation. The objective of this study is to develop an optimal geometry for the calculation of the mass attenuation coefficient for different materials using the MCNP code. Several measurement geometries were tested with different radiation energies, and the best results were obtained using lead collimators on both detector and radiation source. The considered geometries were isotropic source without any collimation, isotropic source with detector and/or source collimation, and a point source collimated into a cone of directions. The last case was proposed as a replacement for the computationally time expensive simulation of the two-collimator geometry. The energies 59.54 keV, 81 keV, 356 keV, and 662 keV were used to model 241Am, 133Ba, and 137Cs radiation sources, respectively. The materials were, NaI for the detector, aluminum, water, and sea water (3.5% NaCl) for the target sample, and lead for the collimators. The values of mass attenuation coefficient obtained from the simulations were compared with the theoretical NIST XCOM values for validation of the geometries. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-69c6a6af7cb947fdaceb32a02f2461fa2025-08-20T03:27:43ZengBrazilian Radiation Protection Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Proteção Radiológica, SBPR)Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences2319-06122021-04-0191A10.15392/bjrs.v9i1A.15681221USE OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR OPTIMAL GEOMETRY STUDY IN CALCULATION OF ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR ELEMENT, COMPOUND AND MIXTURECaroline Mattos Barbosa0Cesar Raitz1Roos Sophia de Freitas Dam2William Luna Salgado3Cesar Marques Salgado4Delson Braz5Federal University of Rio de JaneiroNuclear Engineering InstituteFederal University of Rio de JaneiroFederal University of Rio de JaneiroNuclear Engineering InstituteFederal University of Rio de JaneiroMCNP is a code extensively used to simulate experiments involving transport of radiation using the Monte Carlo method. This code allows the study of different geometries, materials, and radiation types (e.g. gamma, neutron, and electron), enabling the building of approximate models before the experimental implementation. The objective of this study is to develop an optimal geometry for the calculation of the mass attenuation coefficient for different materials using the MCNP code. Several measurement geometries were tested with different radiation energies, and the best results were obtained using lead collimators on both detector and radiation source. The considered geometries were isotropic source without any collimation, isotropic source with detector and/or source collimation, and a point source collimated into a cone of directions. The last case was proposed as a replacement for the computationally time expensive simulation of the two-collimator geometry. The energies 59.54 keV, 81 keV, 356 keV, and 662 keV were used to model 241Am, 133Ba, and 137Cs radiation sources, respectively. The materials were, NaI for the detector, aluminum, water, and sea water (3.5% NaCl) for the target sample, and lead for the collimators. The values of mass attenuation coefficient obtained from the simulations were compared with the theoretical NIST XCOM values for validation of the geometries.https://bjrs.org.br/revista/index.php/REVISTA/article/view/1568mcnpnuclear techniquegamma ray. |
| spellingShingle | Caroline Mattos Barbosa Cesar Raitz Roos Sophia de Freitas Dam William Luna Salgado Cesar Marques Salgado Delson Braz USE OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR OPTIMAL GEOMETRY STUDY IN CALCULATION OF ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR ELEMENT, COMPOUND AND MIXTURE Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences mcnp nuclear technique gamma ray. |
| title | USE OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR OPTIMAL GEOMETRY STUDY IN CALCULATION OF ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR ELEMENT, COMPOUND AND MIXTURE |
| title_full | USE OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR OPTIMAL GEOMETRY STUDY IN CALCULATION OF ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR ELEMENT, COMPOUND AND MIXTURE |
| title_fullStr | USE OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR OPTIMAL GEOMETRY STUDY IN CALCULATION OF ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR ELEMENT, COMPOUND AND MIXTURE |
| title_full_unstemmed | USE OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR OPTIMAL GEOMETRY STUDY IN CALCULATION OF ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR ELEMENT, COMPOUND AND MIXTURE |
| title_short | USE OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR OPTIMAL GEOMETRY STUDY IN CALCULATION OF ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FOR ELEMENT, COMPOUND AND MIXTURE |
| title_sort | use of monte carlo simulations for optimal geometry study in calculation of attenuation coefficient for element compound and mixture |
| topic | mcnp nuclear technique gamma ray. |
| url | https://bjrs.org.br/revista/index.php/REVISTA/article/view/1568 |
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