COMPARISON OF MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS WITH EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS FOR THE PROPAGATION OF GAMMA RAYS NEAR AN AIR-GROUND INTERFACE

Abstract

The RAND gamma ray Monte Carlo code is used to predict dosages from point isotropic monoenergetic sources of 1.28 Mev and 0.661 Mev near an air-ground interface. These results are compared with experimental results for identical geometry obtained by the Nuclear Defense Laboratory. In general, the agreement between the Monte Carlo estimates and the experimental results is quite good.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0293864

Entities

People

  • J. I. Marcum

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Chemical Composition
  • Detectors
  • Energy
  • Errors
  • Experimental Data
  • Gamma Rays
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Mean Free Path
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • New York
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Radiation
  • Sampling
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Statistical inference.