STATUS OF THE MCNPX TRANSPORT CODE
- and others
The Monte Carlo particle transport code MCNPX and its associated data have been the focus of a major development effort at Los Alamos for several years. The system has reached a mature state, and has become a significant tool for many intermediate and high-energy particle transport applications. A recent version has been released to the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC). A recent report provides an overview of the code and an extensive set of references for the component physics modules used in the code. In this paper we review the status of the developmental version of MCNPX, and describe some important new enhancements, including the use of evaluated nuclear data files for proton transport; the use of photonuclear reaction data; improved elastic and inelastic react ion cross sections for nucleons, antinucleons, pions, and kaons; and two new modes of operation of the code. We also illustrate the use of the new proton and photonuclear data in two representative applications.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 765270
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-00-4942; TRN: US0100119
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: MC2000: Advanced Monte Carlofor Radiation Physics, Particle Transport Simulation and Applications, Lisbon, (PT), 10/23/2000--10/26/2000; Other Information: PBD: 1 Oct 2000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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