Nuclear Energy Handbook
PENELOPE - A Code System for Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport (NEA/OECD)
external URL: http://www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/peneloperef.html
| The computer code system PENELOPE (version 2001) performs Monte Carlo simulation of coupled electron-photon transport in arbitrary materials for a wide energy range, from a few hundred eV to about 1GeV. Photon transport is simulated by means of the standard, detailed simulation scheme. Electron and positron histories are generated on the basis of a mixed procedure, which combines detailed simulation of hard events with condensed simulation of soft interactions. A geometry package called PENGEOM permits the generation of random electron-photon showers in material systems consisting of homogeneous bodies limited by quadric surfaces, i.e. planes, spheres, cylinders, etc. |
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| URL: | http://www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/peneloperef.html
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| language: | English
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| originator: | Nuclear Energy Agency
| France
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| access: | requires membership or registration
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| type of data: | numerical data, codes
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| type of site: | non-commercial site
| data base
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| related sites: | NEA Data Bank Computer Program Services
| List of programs by category
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| subject category: | scientific and technical data
| atomic and molecular data/codes
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| INIS/ETDE category: | atomic and molecular physics
| nuclear physics including radiation physics
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| keywords: | atomic codes
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