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GARLIC, a shielding program for GAmma Radiation from Line- and Cylinder-sources

Abstract

GARLIC is a program for computing the gamma ray flux or dose rate at a shielded idotropic point detector, due to a line source or the line equivalent of a cylindrical source. The source strength distribution along the line must be either uniform or an arbitrary part of the positive half-cycle of a cosine function. The line source can be oriented arbitrarily with respect to the main shield and the detector, except that the detector must not be located on the line source or on its extension. The main source is a homogeneous plane slab in which scattered radiation is accounted for by multiplying each point element of the line source by a point source build-up factor inside the integral over the point elements. Between, the main shield and the line source additional shields can be introduced, which are either plane slabs, parallel to the main shield, or cylindrical rings, coaxial with the line source. Scattered radiation in the additional shields can only be accounted for by constant build-up factors outside the integral. GARLIC-xyz is an extended version particularly suited for the frequently met problem of shielding a room containing a large number of line sources in different positions. The  More>>
Authors:
Publication Date:
Jul 15, 1959
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
AE-14
Resource Relation:
Other Information: 13 refs., 17 figs., 3 tabs.
Subject:
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; SHIELDING; GAMMA RADIATION; CYLINDRICAL CONFIGURATION; SLABS; G CODES; DOSE RATES; RADIATION FLUX
OSTI ID:
20923643
Research Organizations:
AB Atomenergi, Stockholm (Sweden)
Country of Origin:
Sweden
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: SE0708197
Availability:
Commercial reproduction prohibited; OSTI as DE20923643
Submitting Site:
SWDN
Size:
46 pages
Announcement Date:
Sep 27, 2007

Citation Formats

Roos, Matts. GARLIC, a shielding program for GAmma Radiation from Line- and Cylinder-sources. Sweden: N. p., 1959. Web.
Roos, Matts. GARLIC, a shielding program for GAmma Radiation from Line- and Cylinder-sources. Sweden.
Roos, Matts. 1959. "GARLIC, a shielding program for GAmma Radiation from Line- and Cylinder-sources." Sweden.
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title = {GARLIC, a shielding program for GAmma Radiation from Line- and Cylinder-sources}
author = {Roos, Matts}
abstractNote = {GARLIC is a program for computing the gamma ray flux or dose rate at a shielded idotropic point detector, due to a line source or the line equivalent of a cylindrical source. The source strength distribution along the line must be either uniform or an arbitrary part of the positive half-cycle of a cosine function. The line source can be oriented arbitrarily with respect to the main shield and the detector, except that the detector must not be located on the line source or on its extension. The main source is a homogeneous plane slab in which scattered radiation is accounted for by multiplying each point element of the line source by a point source build-up factor inside the integral over the point elements. Between, the main shield and the line source additional shields can be introduced, which are either plane slabs, parallel to the main shield, or cylindrical rings, coaxial with the line source. Scattered radiation in the additional shields can only be accounted for by constant build-up factors outside the integral. GARLIC-xyz is an extended version particularly suited for the frequently met problem of shielding a room containing a large number of line sources in different positions. The program computes the angles and linear dimensions of a problem for GARLIC when the positions of the detector point and the end points of the line source are given as points in an arbitrary rectangular coordinate system. As an example the isodose curves in water are presented for a monoenergetic cosine-distributed line source at several source energies and for an operating fuel element of the Swedish reactor R3.}
place = {Sweden}
year = {1959}
month = {Jul}
}