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http://dx.doi.org/10.14407/jrp.2013.38.1.022

Development of Neutron Skyshine Evaluation Method for High Energy Electron Accelerator Using Monte Carlo Code  

Oh, Joo-Hee (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)
Jung, Nam-Suk (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)
Lee, Hee-Seock (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)
Ko, Seung-Kook (Department of Physics, University of Ulsan)
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Journal of Radiation Protection and Research / v.38, no.1, 2013 , pp. 22-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
The skyshine effect is an essential and important phenomenon in the shielding design of the high energy accelerator. In this study, a new estimation method of neutron skyshine was proposed and was verified by comparison with existing methods. The effective dose of secondary neutrons and photons at the locations that was far away from high-energy electron accelerator was calculated using FLUKA and PHITS Monte Carlo code. The transport paths of secondary radiations to reach a long distance were classified as skyshine, direct, groundshine and multiple-shine. The contribution of each classified component to the total effective dose was evaluated. The neutrons produced from the thick copper target irradiated by 10 GeV electron beam was applied as a source term of this transport. In order to evaluate a groundshine effect, the composition of soil on the PAL-XFEL site was considered. At a relatively short distance less than 50 m from the accelerator tunnel, the direct and groundshine components mostly contributed to the total effective dose. The skyshine component was important at a long distance. The evaluated dose of neutron skyshine agreed better with the results using Rindi's formula, which was based on the experimental results at high energy electron accelerator. That also agreed with the estimated dose using the simple evaluation code, SHINE3, within about 20%. The total effective dose, including all components, was 10 times larger than the estimated doses using other methods for this comparison. The influence of multiple-shine path in this evaluation of the estimation method was investigated to be bigger than one of pure skyshine path.
Keywords
Skyshine; Neutron; High-energy electron accelerator; PAL-XFEL; PHITS; FLUKA; SHINE3;
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