Radiation sensitive polymer gels are among the most promising three-dimensional dose verification tools developed to date. Polymer gel dosimeter known by the acronym MAGIC has been tested for evaluation of its use in boron neutron capture (BNCT) dosimetry. We irradiated a large (diameter 10 cm, length 20 cm) cylindrical gel phantom in the epithermal neutron beam of the Finnish BNCT facility at ...

Recent applications’ needs/desires have motivated efforts to develop approaches for optimizing Monte Carlo calculations for global distributions, such as flux or dose rate distributions (e.g., mesh tallies), as well as response at multiple localized detectors and spectra. Recent efforts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have led to the development of a variation on the Consistent Adjoint ...

We describe the use of the MCNP-PoliMi code to simulate, on an event-by-event basis, the detection of neutrons by organic scintillators. This code keeps track of single neutron interactions, including the collision nucleus, the energy deposited, and the time distribution of collision events. We show that the total pulse-height response is given by the sum of many possible neutron histories, eac...

To support the design and analysis of x-ray radiographic facilities and experiments at Los Alamos, we have developed an integrated chain model, which is a set of linked physics simulation codes to generate self-consistent synthetic radiographs of experiments [1]. The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm [2] has recently been used to great advantage to link particlein-cell (PIC) methods, whic...

To enhance the production of short-lived isotopes, higher beam powers are sought, which require targets able to accommodate them. One such target prototype is a liquid metal LIEBE, developed at CERN. In this paper, simulation proton interaction with LIEBE presented. Simulations were performed by series transport calculations using MCNP Monte Carlo code. The latest input was created in high-fide...