Testing efficiency transfer codes for equivalence

T Vidmar; N Celik; N Cornejo Díaz; A Dlabac; I O B Ewa; J A Carrazana González; M Hult; S Jovanović; M-C Lépy; N Mihaljević; O Sima; F Tzika; M Jurado Vargas; T Vasilopoulou; G Vidmar

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.10.012

Testing efficiency transfer codes for equivalence

Appl Radiat Isot. 2010 Feb;68(2):355-9. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.10.012. Epub 2009 Oct 17.

Authors

T Vidmar¹, N Celik, N Cornejo Díaz, A Dlabac, I O B Ewa, J A Carrazana González, M Hult, S Jovanović, M-C Lépy, N Mihaljević, O Sima, F Tzika, M Jurado Vargas, T Vasilopoulou, G Vidmar

Affiliation

¹ European Commission, JRC, IRMM, Geel, Belgium. [email protected]

PMID: 19892558
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.10.012

Abstract

Four general Monte Carlo codes (GEANT3, PENELOPE, MCNP and EGS4) and five dedicated packages for efficiency determination in gamma-ray spectrometry (ANGLE, DETEFF, GESPECOR, ETNA and EFFTRAN) were checked for equivalence by applying them to the calculation of efficiency transfer (ET) factors for a set of well-defined sample parameters, detector parameters and energies typically encountered in environmental radioactivity measurements. The differences between the results of the different codes never exceeded a few percent and were lower than 2% in the majority of cases.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Radiometry / instrumentation*
Radiometry / methods*
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Software*