Simulation of Ionizing Radiation Transport

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	480-6004/01
Abbreviation	STIZ
Course title	Simulation of Ionizing Radiation Transport
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Physics
Course coordinator	Doc. Dr. RNDr. Petr Alexa

Subject syllabus

The course focuses on selected parts of particle-transport simulations according to the topic of PhD. thesis, in particular:

An overview of photon, neutron and charged particle interactions with matter.
Softwares for ionizing-radiation trasport simulations and their applications.
A deep introduction to MCNP6 calculations.
Simulations of radiation fields and spectra.
Calculations in dosimetry.
Calculations of detection efficiency.

Literature

1. A. Haghighat: Monte Carlo Methods for Particle Transport, CRC Press, 2015.

2. Ch. Perfetti (ed.): Monte Carlo Methods and Codes for Nuclear Engineering Analysis, Elsevier, 2019.

3. J.S. Hendricks, M.T. Swinhoe, A. Favalli: Monte Carlo N-Particle Simulations for Nuclear Detection and Safeguards: An Example-Based Guide for Students and Practitioners, Springer, 2022.

Advised literature

1. J. A. Kulesza, T. R. Adams, J. C. Armstrong, S. R. Bolding, F. B. Brown, J. S. Bull, T. P. Burke, A. R. Clark, R. A. Forster III, J. F. Giron, A. S. Grieve, C. J. Josey, R. L. Martz, G. W. McKinney, E. J. Pearson, M. E. Rising, C. J. Solomon Jr., S. Swaminarayan, T. J. Trahan, C. A. Weaver, S. C. Wilson, A. J. Zukaitis. MCNP® Code Version 6.3.1 Theory & User Manual. Los Alamos National Laboratory Tech. Rep. LA-UR-24-24602, Rev. 1. Los Alamos, NM, USA. May 2024.

2. Geant4 Collaboration: Book For Application Developers, Release 11.3, 2024 (https://geant4-userdoc.web.cern.ch/UsersGuides/ForApplicationDeveloper/fo/BookForApplicationDevelopers.pdf)

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