Validation and verification of MCNP6 against intermediate and high-energy experimental data and results by other codes

Mashnik, Stepan G

doi:10.1140/epjp/i2011-11049-1

Title: Validation and verification of MCNP6 against intermediate and high-energy experimental data and results by other codes

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MCNP6, the latest and most advanced LANL transport code representing a recent merger of MCNP5 and MCNPX, has been Validated and Verified (V and V) against a variety of intermediate and high-energy experimental data and against results by different versions of MCNPX and other codes. In the present work, we V andV MCNP6 using mainly the latest modifications of the Cascade-Exciton Model (CEM) and of the Los Alamos version of the Quark-Gluon String Model (LAQGSM) event generators CEM03.02 and LAQGSM03.03. We found that MCNP6 describes reasonably well various reactions induced by particles and nuclei at incident energies from 18 MeV to about 1 TeV per nucleon measured on thin and thick targets and agrees very well with similar results obtained with MCNPX and calculations by CEM03.02, LAQGSM03.01 (03.03), INCL4 + ABLA, and Bertini INC + Dresner evaporation, EPAX, ABRABLA, HIPSE, and AMD, used as stand alone codes. Most of several computational bugs and more serious physics problems observed in MCNP6/X during our V and V have been fixed; we continue our work to solve all the known problems before MCNP6 is distributed to the public.

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Mashnik, Stepan G ^[1]

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Publication Date:: Mon Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2010

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1041200

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-10-07847; LA-UR-10-7847
Journal ID: ISSN 2190--5444; TRN: US1202622

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Journal Volume: 126; Journal Issue: 5; Conference: Int. Conf. on Mathematical and Computat. Meth. Nucl. Sci. Eng. (MC2011) ; May 8, 2011 ; Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 97 MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; EVAPORATION; LANL; MODIFICATIONS; NUCLEI; NUCLEONS; PHYSICS; STRING MODELS; TARGETS; TRANSPORT; VALIDATION; VERIFICATION

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                    Mashnik, Stepan G. Validation and verification of MCNP6 against intermediate and high-energy experimental data and results by other codes.  United States: N. p., 2010. 
        Web.  doi:10.1140/epjp/i2011-11049-1.

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                    Mashnik, Stepan G. Validation and verification of MCNP6 against intermediate and high-energy experimental data and results by other codes.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11049-1

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                    Mashnik, Stepan G. 2010.  
        "Validation and verification of MCNP6 against intermediate and high-energy experimental data and results by other codes".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11049-1.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1041200.

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