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Tuomas Viitanen, Jaakko Leppänen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 171 | Number 2 | June 2012 | Pages 165-173
Technical Paper | dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE11-36
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper introduces a new stochastic method for taking the effect of thermal motion into account on the fly in a Monte Carlo neutron transport calculation. The method is based on explicit treatment of the motion of target nuclei at collision sites and, consequently, requires simply cross sections at a temperature of 0 K regardless of the number of temperatures in the problem geometry. It utilizes rejection sampling techniques to manage the fact that total cross sections become distributed quantities. The method has a novel capability of accurately modeling continuous temperature distributions.The new stochastic method is verified using a simple test program, which compares its results to an analytical reference solution based on NJOY-broadened cross sections. Future implementation to Monte Carlo reactor physics code Serpent is also discussed shortly.