Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 38 / Number 1 / October 1969 / Pages 53-62
Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A19353
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Calculations have been carried out to determine the time dependence of the residual photon dose rate around a high-energy proton accelerator. The development of the nucleon-meson cascade, the residual nuclei production, and the photon transport are calculated using Monte Carlo methods. Proton beams of 3- and 200-GeV and shields in the form of infinite cylinders of iron and heavy concrete are considered. Although the 3-GeV calculations are carried out with some exactitude, the results for the 200-GeV case mast be considered very approximate since the energy and angular distributions of the products from nuclear interactions in this energy range are not well known.