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- Title
INVESTIGATION OF APPLICABILITY OF PURE PROPANE GAS FOR MICRODOSIMETRY AT NEUTRON FIELDS: A MONTE CARLO STUDY.
- Authors
Chattaraj, Arghya; Selvam, T Palani; Datta, D
- Abstract
Applicability of pure propane gas for microdosimetric measurements in neutron fields was investigated using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code. Monoenergetic neutrons in the energy range 1 keV−20 MeV and the ISO-neutron sources such as 241Am-Be, 241Am-B, 252Cf and 252Cf + D2O were considered in the present study. The tissue-equivalent proportional counter (TEPC) simulated in the study was LET-1/2 (by Far West Technology) with site sizes 1, 2 and 8 μm. The study demonstrates that for a given site size, the TEPC filled with tissue-equivalent propane and pure propane gases produce similar microdosimetric distributions when the density of pure propane gas is lowered appropriately. For the ISO-neutron sources, the density of propane gas requires scaling by a factor 0.85. For the monoenergetic neutrons, depending upon the neutron energy, the values of scaling factors are in the range of 0.58–0.93.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL Organization for Standardization; PROPANE; MICRODOSIMETRY; NEUTRON temperature; NEUTRONS; NEUTRON measurement
- Publication
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2019, Vol 185, Issue 1, p74
- ISSN
0144-8420
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rpd/ncy261