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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 54: Poster

HK 54.72: Poster

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 16:30–19:00, Foyer Theresanium

URANOS - a voxel engine Neutron Transport Monte Carlo Simulation — •Markus Köhli^1,2, Martin Schrön³, Klaus Desch², and Ulrich Schmidt¹ — ¹Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Deutschland — ²Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Deutschland — ³Dep. Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Deutschland

URANOS (Ultra RApid Neutron-Only Simulation) is a newly developed 3D neutron transport Monte Carlo for the thermal to fast regime. Emerging from a problem solver for detector development in collaboration with environmental physics the project aims towards providing a fast computational workflow and an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for small to medium sized projects. It features a ray-casting algorithm based on a voxel engine. The simulation domain is defined layerwise, whereas the geometry is extruded from a pixel matrix of materials, identified by specific numbers. Therefore, input files are solely a stack of pictures, all other settings, including the configuration of predefined sources, can be adjusted by the GUI. The scattering kernel features the treatment of elastic and inelastic collisions, absorption and absorption-like processes like evaporation. In order to simulate multi-layer boron detectors it also models the charged particle transport following the conversion by computing the energy loss in the boron and its consecutive layer. The electron track is then projected onto a readout unit by longitudinal and transversal diffusion.