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IAEA1435 ZZ-EPICS2023.

ZZ EPICS2023, Electron Photon Interaction Cross Sections

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION

ZZ-EPICS2023.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name Package id Status Status date
ZZ-EPICS2023 IAEA1435/04 Arrived 27-SEP-2023

Machines used:

Package ID Orig. computer Test computer
IAEA1435/04 PC Windows
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3. DESCRIPTION

The Electron Photon Interaction Cross Sections, EPICS, provides the atomic data needed to perform coupled Electron-Photon transport calculations, to produce accurate macroscopic results, such as energy deposit and dose. Atomic data is provided for elements, Z = 1 to 100, over the energy range 10 eV to 100 GeV; note that nuclear data, such as photo-nuclear, and data for compounds, are not included. The data are in a simple computer independent text format that is standard and presented to a high precision that can be easily read by computer codes written in any computer language, e.g., C, C++, and FORTRAN.

 

EPICS is not designed to handle density or molecular and other binding effects that are important at low energies. Nor is it designed to handle NUCLEAR effects, that are important at high energy. This limits the use of this data to ATOMIC data in the keV and MeV energy range

 

EPICS2023 include three separate databases that are designed to be used in combination. They include:

1) The Evaluated Electron Data Library (EEDL), to describe the interaction of electrons with matter.

2) The Evaluated Photon Data Library (EPDL), to describe the interaction of photons with matter.

3) The Evaluated Atomic Data Library (EADL), to describe the emission of electrons and photons back to neutrality following an ionizing event, caused by either electron or photon interactions.

These are available in the Extended ENDL format (ENDLX) in which the evaluations were originally performed, as well as in the ENDF format.

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8. RELATED OR AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

UTILITY CODES:

  • RELAX: Calculates atomic relaxation spectra of X-rays and electrons due to bound-bound transitions.

 

DATA LIBRARIES:

  • The Evaluated Electron Data Library (EEDL) to describe the interaction of electrons with matter

  • The Evaluated Photon Data Library (EPDL) to describe the interaction of electrons with matter

  • The Evaluated Atomic Data Library (EADL) to describe the emission of electrons and photons back to neutrality following an ionizing event, caused by either electron or photon interactions

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9. STATUS
Package ID Status date Status
IAEA1435/04 27-SEP-2023 Masterfiled Arrived
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10. REFERENCES

Background Documentation:

[1] EADL2017: Survey of Atomic Binding Energies for use in EPICS2017, Report IAEA-NDS-224, September 2017, IAEA, Vienna, Austria.

[2] EPDL2017: Survey of Atomic Photon Cross Section Data for use in EPICS2017, Report IAEA-NDS-225, November 2017, IAEA, Vienna, Austria.

[5] ENDF Format. ENDF-6 Formats Manual: Data Formats and Procedures for the Evaluated Nuclear Data Files ENDF/B-VI, ENDF/B-VI, and ENDF/B-VIII, CSEWG Document ENDF-102, Report BNL-203218-2018-INRE, Rev. 215, February 2018, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Eds, A. Trkov, M. Herman, D.A. Brown).

[6] PREPRO 2023: 2023 ENDF/B Pre-processing Codes (ENDF/B-VIII.0 Improved Precision), Report IAEA-NDS- 0241, IAEA, Vienna, Austria, June 2023.

[7] Private Communication, Robert J. Howerton, circa 1972.

[8] TART 2022: An Overview of A Coupled Neutron-Photon 3-D, Combinatorial Geometry Time Dependent Monte Carlo Transport Code, Report: LLNL-SM-835527, Code Release: LLNL-CODE-836321, May 2022.

[9] Program EPICSHOW: A Computer Code to Allow Interactive viewing of the EPIC Data Libraries (Version 94-1), UCRL-ID-116819, February 1994.

[10] PENELOPE: F. Salvat, Penelope-2014: A code System for Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Tech. Rep. NEA/NSC/DOC(2015)3, 2015.

[11] MCNP: T. Goorley et al., Initial MCNP6 release overview, Nucl. Technol. 180/3 (2012) 298-315.

[12] GEANT4: J. Allison et al., Recent developments in Geant4, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 835 (2016) 186-225.

[13] FLUKA: T.T. Böhlen et al., The FLUKA code: Developments and challenges for high energy and medical applications, Nucl. Data Sheets 120 (2014) 211-214.

IAEA1435/04, included references:
[1] Dermott E. Cullen: A Survey of Atomic Binding Energies for use in EPICS2017,
IAEA-NDS-224, Rev. 1, April 2018
[2] Dermott E. Cullen: A Survey of Photon Cross Section Data for use in
EPICS2017, IAEA-NDS-225, rev.1, February 2018
[3] Dermott E. Cullen: A Survey of Electron Cross Section Data for use in
EPICS2017, IAEA-NDS-226, December 2017
[4] S. T. Perkins and D. E. Cullen: ENDL Type Formats for the LLNL Evaluated
Atomic Data Library (EADL), Evaluated Electron Data Library (EEDL), and
Evaluated Photon Data Library (EPDL), UCRL-ID-117796, Rev. 1 (May 17, 2002)
- Dermott E. Cullen: EPICS2023: August 2023 Status Report, IAEA-NDS-0242,
August 2023
- Dermott E. Cullen: EPICS2017: April 2019 Status Report, IAEA-NDS-228, April
2019
- Dermott E. Cullen: EPICS2014: Electron Photon Interaction Cross Sections,
(Version 2014) IAEA-NDS-218 September 2014
- D.E. Cullen, S.T. Perkins and S.M. Seltzer, "Tables and Graphs of Electron
Interaction Cross 10 eV to 100 GeV Derived from the LLNL Evaluated Electron
Data Library (EEDL), Z = 1-100", Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
UCRL-50400, Vol. 31, November 1991
- D.E. Cullen, et al., "Tables and Graphs of Photon-Interaction Cross Sections
from 10 eV to 100 GeV Derived from the LLNL Evaluated Photon Data Library
(EPDL)", UCRL-50400, Vol. 6, Rev. 4, October 1989
- Dermott E. Cullen, John H. Hubbell, Lynn Kissel: EPDL97: The Evaluated Photon
Data Library, '97 Version UCRL--50400, Vol. 6, Rev. 5 (September 19, 1997)
- D.E.Cullen: "PROGRAM RELAX: A Code Designed to Calculate Atomic Relaxation
Sprectra of X-Rays and Electrons, March 20, 1992
- EPICS Formats and Content
- Dermott E. Cullen and Robert E. MacFarlane: ENDF/B-VI Coupled Photon-Electron
Data for Use in Radiation Shielding Applications, presented at the Twelfth
Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, of
the American Nuclear Society, to be held April 14-17, 2002 in Santa Fe, New
Mexico
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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED
Package ID Computer language
IAEA1435/04 FORTRAN
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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

Dermott (Red) Cullen, retired

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Wagramer Strasse, 5

P.O. Box 100

Vienna 1400

Austria

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE
IAEA1435/04
EEDL, EPDL and EADL databases
Program RELAX
Electronic documentation
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17. CATEGORIES
  • Z. Data

Keywords: cross sections, electrons, evaluated data, gamma ray.