A SIMPLIFIED MONTE-CARLO ELECTRON-TRANSPORT ALGORITHM FOR ADVANCED BREMSSTRAHLUNG CONVERTER DESIGN CALCULATIONS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A fast and simple algorithm is presented for calculating the effects of energy loss and scattering on electrons which pass through a converter foil. This algorithm is designed to be integrated into particle-in-cell codes for electron-beam transport. The results of this algorithm for such quantities as energy and number transmission and reflection coefficients compare very favorably with results obtained from a more sophisticated Monte Carlo transport code for pertinent applications. The savings in time is appreciable: this algorithm is approximately 30 times faster than the more sophisticated code.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • PREGENZER, A., & MOREL, J. E.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • PREGENZER, A||MOREL, JE

publication date

  • June 1985