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Report number arXiv:2002.05381
Title Evolutions in photoelectric cross section calculations and their validation
Author(s) Basaglia, Tullio (CERN) ; Pia, Maria Grazia (INFN, Genoa) ; Saracco, Paolo (INFN, Genoa)
Publication 2020-02-03
Imprint 2020-02-13
Number of pages 10
In: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 67 (2020) 492-501
DOI 10.1109/TNS.2020.2971173 (publication)
Subject category physics.comp-ph ; Other Fields of Physics
Abstract This paper updates and complements a previously published evaluation of computational methods for total and partial cross sections, relevant to modeling the photoelectric effect in Monte Carlo particle transport. It examines calculation methods that have become available since the publication of the previous paper, some of which claim improvements over previous calculations; it tests them with statistical methods against the same sample of experimental data collected for the previous evaluation. No statistically significant improvements are observed with respect to the calculation method identified in the previous paper as the state of the art for the intended purpose, encoded in the EPDL97 data library. Some of the more recent computational methods exhibit significantly lower capability to reproduce experimental measurements than the existing alternatives.
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