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Below and to the left is a plot of the total cross section of Th-232. To the right is the percent contamination of my simulation for r=3.1mm. For this radius, an MCNP F4 tally gave an average neutron track length within the target of 3.7 mm. The percent contamination matches very closely with the probability of interaction calculated from total cross section. All simulated neutrons are included in this plot, i.e. neutrons are not thrown away if they are traveling towards the ground or ceiling.
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Below and to the left is a plot of the total cross section of Th-232. To the right is the simulated percent contamination for a target radius of 3.1mm. At this radius, an MCNP F4 tally gave an average neutron track length within the target of 3.7 mm. The percent contamination matches very closely with the probability of interaction calculated from total cross section. All simulated neutrons are included in this plot, i.e. neutrons are not thrown away if they are traveling towards the ground or ceiling.
  
 
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Revision as of 03:40, 23 December 2015

The simulation

Neutrons are generated uniformly within a cylindrical target with their energy sampled from a Watt fission spectrum. The angle between the direction that the neutron is traveling at birth and upon exiting the target volume is calculated. The picture below illustrates the angle that was calculated.

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Neutrons that exit the target on a trajectory which will not intersect with a detector are not counted, e.g. neutrons going towards the ceiling or the ground.

Thorium-232

Out of the neutrons that did scatter in the target, at least 96% did so at an angle greater than 10 degrees. Because of the high tendency of neutrons to scatter at sharp angles, my analysis simply considers any neutron that scatters as contaminated data. Below is the distribution of the angle of deflection for all the neutrons that did scatter. In this example, the target has a radius of 3 mm, and 8.2% of total simulated neutrons did scatter in the target (at least once).

Theta.png

Below and to the left is a plot of the total cross section of Th-232. To the right is the simulated percent contamination for a target radius of 3.1mm. At this radius, an MCNP F4 tally gave an average neutron track length within the target of 3.7 mm. The percent contamination matches very closely with the probability of interaction calculated from total cross section. All simulated neutrons are included in this plot, i.e. neutrons are not thrown away if they are traveling towards the ground or ceiling.

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Below shows the percent contamination vs target radius for various different energy intervals. The energy of the neutron once it exits the target is the energy used for this data.


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