Continuous Energy Photon Transport Implementation in MCATK

Technical Report · Mon Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1330646· OSTI ID:1330646

Adams, Terry R. ^[1]; Trahan, Travis John ^[1]; Sweezy, Jeremy Ed ^[1]; Nolen, Steven Douglas ^[1]; Hughes, Henry Grady ^[1]; Pritchett-Sheats, Lori A. ^[1]; Werner, Christopher John ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The Monte Carlo Application ToolKit (MCATK) code development team has implemented Monte Carlo photon transport into the MCATK software suite. The current particle transport capabilities in MCATK, which process the tracking and collision physics, have been extended to enable tracking of photons using the same continuous energy approximation. We describe the four photoatomic processes implemented, which are coherent scattering, incoherent scattering, pair-production, and photoelectric absorption. The accompanying background, implementation, and verification of these processes will be presented.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1330646
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-28348; TRN: US1700460
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
PHOTON TRANSPORT
MONTE CARLO METHOD
IMPLEMENTATION
COHERENT SCATTERING
INCOHERENT SCATTERING
PAIR PRODUCTION
ABSORPTION
PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT
M CODES
VERIFICATION
Monte Carlo
pair-production
photon production
MCATK