Photonuclear Reactions in FLUKA: Cross Sections and Interaction Models
- SLAC, MS 48, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (United States)
- CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
- ETH, CH-8093 Zurich (Switzerland)
Photonuclear reactions, implemented in FLUKA about ten years ago, have opened the way to a more accurate design of electron accelerator shielding. Since then, they have been introduced also in other codes: but the FLUKA design, covering all nuclei over the whole energy range, remains still unique. The FLUKA scheme is based on several physical models corresponding to different energy ranges but partially overlapping to ensure continuity. All models are smoothly integrated in the FLUKA hadronic event generator. Here we will mainly focus on the FLUKA Giant Resonance total cross-section database, which has been derived from experimental data or from existing evaluations for 190 nuclides. For all other nuclei, excitation functions are obtained from parameterizations or by interpolation. Many partial cross sections, not used explicitly in FLUKA, have also been evaluated in order to ensure consistency of the total cross sections entered into the database. The FLUKA implementation of photonuclear reactions has been successfully benchmarked with activation and neutron spectrometry experiments, and is being widely used to design shielding and to predict radiation damage.
- OSTI ID:
- 20722421
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 769, Issue 1; Conference: International conference on nuclear data for science and technology, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 26 Sep - 1 Oct 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1945245; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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