GSWG Reports
The report presented during the ICRM 2007 conference in Cape Town is included
here:
ICRM_GSWG_Report_2007.doc
The report presented during the ICRM 2005 conference in Oxford is included
here:
ICRM_GSWG_Report_2005.doc
Monte Carlo codes intercomparison exercise
The aim of the exercise is to test the possible differences between Monte Carlo codes in order to
assess the intrinsic uncertainties of such calculations, due to the different approaches to particle tracking and the nuclear and material data used for it.
In accordance with its objective the exercise does not involve any reference to the experimental data and simply confronts the codes one with another, as they are applied to the calculation of full energy peak and total efficiencies for a precisely defined and very schematic model of a HPGe detector and the sample. Since there is no experimental data to compare the results of the codes against, this exercise only tests their mutual compatibility and not their absolute performance.
The results of the exercise will provide useful information for future intercomparisons involving the application of Monte Carlo codes to efficiency transfer and coincidence summing correction calculations.
Exercise coordinator : Tim Vidmar (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Files of presentation of the exercise are available here:
Instructions.doc;
Report.doc;
Report.xls
The meeting of the ICRM Gamma-Ray Spectrometry Working Group was held in Paris, on November 26-27th, 2006. The report of the workshop is included there :
GSWG_Report_meeting_nov-2006.pdf
Dr Tim Vidmar had an oral presentation during the 2007 ICRM conference to
present the action and the results. The presentation was entitled “An
intercomparison of Monte Carlo codes used in gamma-ray spectrometry”. The
relevant paper will be published in the proceedings of the conference.
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