RSICC CODE PACKAGE CCC-710

The MCNP5DATA abstract is appended to this code abstract.

1. NAME AND TITLE

MCNP5: Monte Carlo N–Particle Transport Code System.

Requesters who received a prior version of MCNP from RSICC will be exempt from the
transmittal fee for MCNP5. To request the codes and data, complete an on-line request form on
the RSICC website http://www-rsicc.ornl.gov/rsiccnew/order.htm and select MCNP5 package
C00710MNYCP01. In the comments field of the request form, please state your name and the
installation at which you received the earlier version for verification.

AUXILIARY PROGRAMS
MAKXSF: Prepares MCNP Cross-Section Libraries.
VISED: Visual Editor for interactively constructing & visualizing MCNP
geometry (runs on Windows PCs only). More VISED information is on
the web at the Visual Consultants website http://www.mcnpvised.com/.

RELATED DATA LIBRARY

MCNP5DATA: Standard Neutron, Photoatomic, Photonuclear, and Electron Data
Libraries for MCNP5. The following data libraries for MCNP5
are included in this package:

Continuous-energy Neutron Libraries: acti, endf66, la150n, uresa, endf6dn, endf62mt, endf60,
newxs, rmccs, rmccsa, endf5p, endf5u, misc5xs, kidman,
100xs, endl92, endf5mt
Discrete Neutron Libraries: newxsd, drmccs, dre5
Photoatomic libraries: mcplib, mcplib02, mcplib03, mcplib04
MCNP Multigroup Data Libraries: mgxsnp
Photonuclear Data Libraries: la150u
Thermal Neutron Data Libraries: tmccs, therxs, sab2002
Electron Data Libraries: el, el03
Dosimetry Data Libraries: 531dos, 532dos, llldos

Documentation on the data libraries may be found in Appendix G of the MCNP5 manual
(Volume I) and on the web: http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/PROJECTS/DATA/nuclear/curre.htm
A separate test library of cross sections is used for running the sample problems, but the
test library is not suitable for real problems.

2. CONTRIBUTOR
Diagnostics Applications Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New
Mexico.

3. CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

Fortran 90 and C; Unix systems, Windows PCs, Linux systems, Macintosh with
MacOSX, Itanium (C00710MNYCP01).

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4. NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED
MCNP5 is a general-purpose Monte Carlo N–Particle code that can be used for neutron,
photon, electron, or coupled neutron/photon/electron transport, including the capability to calculate
eigenvalues for critical systems. New features in MCNP5 that were not available in the previous
MCNP4C2 version are:
* Doppler broadening for photon cross-sections
* Radiography tallies
* Generalized source options
* Time-dependent importances
* Extended period random number generator
* Superimposed mesh-based tallies
* Additional Macrobodies
* Edits of important criticality safety parameters
* Plotting enhancements
* Improved build system for compiling and testing
* Improved support for parallel operation using MPI and OpenMP

See the MCNP home page for more information http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/x5/MCNP

with a link to the MCNP Forum. For information on user experiences with MCNP, see the
Electronic Notebook at http://www-rsicc.ornl.gov/rsic.html. Additional information posted by
MCNP developers to the MCNP Forum can be viewed on the web in this entry and subsequent
entries by Forrest Brown: MCNP5 - Part I.

5. METHOD OF SOLUTION
The MCNP5 code treats an arbitrary three-dimensional configuration of materials in
geometric cells bounded by first- and second-degree surfaces and fourth-degree elliptical tori.
Pointwise cross-section data are used. For neutrons, all reactions given in a particular
cross-section evaluation (such as ENDF/B-VI) are accounted for. Thermal neutrons are
described by both the free gas and S(alpha,beta) models. For photons, the code accounts for
incoherent and coherent scattering, the possibility of fluorescent emission after photoelectric
absorption, absorption in pair production with local emission of annihilation radiation, and
bremsstrahlung. A continuous-slowing-down model is used for electron transport that includes
positrons, k x-rays, and bremsstrahlung, but does not include external or self-induced fields.
Important standard features that make MCNP very versatile and easy to use include a powerful
general source, criticality source, and surface source; both geometry and output tally plotters; a
rich collection of variance reduction techniques; a flexible tally structure; and an extensive
collection of cross-section data. The tallies have extensive statistical analysis of convergence.
Rapid convergence is enabled by a wide variety of variance reduction methods. Energy ranges
are 0-20 MeV for neutrons (with data available up to 150 MeV for many nuclides), 1 keV - 1
GeV for electrons, and 1 keV - 100 GeV for photons.

6. RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS
None noted.

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7. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME
On a 1 GHz Pentium-III, compilation of MCNP5 takes about 5 minutes, and the 42 test
cases run in about 4 minutes.

8. COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

MCNP is operable on workstations or PC's running Unix or Linux, Windows-based PC's,
Macintosh computers with MacOSX, and Itanium computers. Executable files for Windows- and
Linux-based PC's are provided. Expanding the code system requires 70 MB, and expanding the
ASCII cross sections require 2.3 GB of hard disk space.

9. COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Executables are included for Windows and Linux users, so users who want to run these
executables do not require a compiler. Other computer users must have compilers. Compilation of
MCNP5 requires both Fortran-90 and ANSI C standard compilers. Dynamic storage allocation is
available on all supported systems.

Computer/OS Fortran-90 compiler

SGI IRIX64 MIPSpro 7.3.0 & higher

HP/Compaq Alpha OSF1 Fortran 5.3-915 & higher
IBM AIX 4.3 & higher xlf90 7.1
Sun SunOS f90 6.1 & higher

PC Linux Absoft Pro 8.0

Lahey Pro 6.1e
PGF90 4.0 (not 4.1 - has bugs)
Intel 7.1

PC Windows HP/Compaq CVF 6.6a & higher

(95,98,ME,XP,2000) Absoft Pro 8.0
Lahey Pro 6.1e

Apple G4 MacOSX Absoft Pro 8.0

(10.2.6)
Itanium Linux Intel 7.1

Threaded parallelism with OpenMP has been tested on the SGI, Alpha, and IBM
systems, both with and without MPI. MPI or PVM based parallelism has been tested on the SGI,
Alpha, IBM, PC/Linux, and PC/Windows systems, using the vendor-supplied MPI, MPICH (on
Linux and Windows), or PVM 3.4.3. It should be noted that while we still support PVM, we
highly recommend using MPI instead. Applications on the LANL parallel computers use MPI,
and that is the basis for nearly all of our parallel development and testing for MCNP5; PVM is
tested only sporadically.
Concerning Apple systems, we have only compiled and tested MCNP5 on G4 systems
using Mac OSX 10.2.4 or higher. We will probably not support older Mac systems.
For compiling MCNP5 on Windows PCs, the Cygwin environment must first be installed.
The Cygwin environment is a collection of GNU-based Unix utilities which have been ported to
the Windows environment. The Cygwin environment may be obtained at no cost from the web

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For plotting geometry, cross-sections, or results, X11 must be installed on your PC. An
X-windows server is required to display the X11 graphics. Suggested servers include ReflectionX,
Exceed, and XFree86.
RSICC tested this release on the following systems:
AMD Athlon running RedHat Linux 7 with Portland Group, Inc. 4.0-2 compiler.
IBM RS/6000 running AIX 4.3.3 XL Fortran 6.1
Sun under Solaris 5.7 with Sun Fortran 95 6.0 compiler and gcc 2.95.2
DEC alpha - Digital UNIX V40.D (Rev. 878) - Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877-48BBF
Pentium 4 running Windows 2000, Service Pack 3 with Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6a
Pentium running WindowsXP with the distributed executables

10. REFERENCES

The Adobe Acrobat Reader freeware is available from http://www.adobe.com to read

and print the electronic documentation.
a. Included documentation in electronic format on the CD:
X-5 Monte Carlo Team, README.txt, Install_readme.txt and
MCNP5_Install_Guide.pdf, “Installing and Running MCNP on Various Systems,” Appendix C of
LA-CP-03-0284.
X-5 Monte Carlo Team, “Patch to update MCNP5 version MCNP5_RSICC_1.14 to
version MCNP5_RSICC_1.20,” LA-UR-03-8102 (October 23, 2003).

b. Included in electronic format; will be expanded to the MCNP5/Manual subdirectory:

X-5 Monte Carlo Team, “MCNP–A General Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code,
Version 5 - Volume I: Overview and Theory,” LA-UR-03-1987 [file
MCNP5_manual_VOL_I.pdf] (April, 2003 revised September, 2003).
X-5 Monte Carlo Team, “MCNP–A General Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code,
Version 5 - Volume II: Users Guide,” LA-CP-03-0245 [file MCNP5_manual_VOL_II.pdf]
(April, 2003).
X-5 Monte Carlo Team, “MCNP–A General Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code,
Version 5 - Volume III: Developers Guide,” LA-CP-03-0284 [file
MCNP5_manual_VOL_III.pdf] (April, 2003).
J.T. Goorley, F.B. Brown, L. J. Cox, ‘MCNP5 Improvements for Windows PCs,”
LA-UR-02-7162 [file MCNP5PCs.pdf in the Windows distribution only] (April, 2003).
L.L. Carter and R.A. Schwarz, “MCNP Visual Editor Computer Code Manual,” [file
VISED_manual.pdf] (2002).
C. D. Harmon, II, R. D. Busch, J. F. Briesmeister, R. A. Forster, “Criticality Calculations
with MCNP: A Primer,” LA-12827-M [file CriticalityPrimer.pdf in Windows distribution only]
(August 1994).

c. Included in electronic format; will be expanded to MCNPDATA subdirectory:

readme_data.txt
X-5 Data Team, “CCC-710/MCNP: Data Libraries for MCNP,” [file
CCC-710_DATA.pdf] (May, 2003).

d. References for data libraries - See section 9 in the data abstract below.

11. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

MCNP5 code and data are distributed on two 80-minute, 700MB CDs. Included are the
referenced electronic documents in (10.a-c) and the source codes, MCNP5DATA, test problems,
Linux and PC executables, and installation scripts transmitted on CD in Windows and UNIX

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12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

May 2003, revised November 2003.

KEYWORDS: COMPLEX GEOMETRY; COUPLED; CROSS SECTIONS;

ELECTRON; GAMMA-RAY; MICROCOMPUTER; MONTE
CARLO; NEUTRON; WORKSTATION

CCC-710/MCNP: Data Libraries for MCNP5

1. NAME AND TITLE OF DATA LIBRARY

MCNP5DATA: Standard Neutron, Photoatomic, Photonuclear, and Electron Data
Libraries for MCNP5.

2. NAME AND TITLE OF DATA RETRIEVAL PROGRAMS

MAKXSF: Preparer of MCNP Cross-Section Libraries.
This program is distributed with the Monte Carlo code package CCC-710/MCNP5.

3. CONTRIBUTOR
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

4. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND INFORMATION

These cross-section libraries are released by the Diagnostics Applications Group, X-5, at
Los Alamos National Laboratory for use with the MCNP Monte Carlo code package. This
release includes all of the X-5 distributed neutron data libraries, the photoatomic libraries,
photonuclear data library LA150U, the electron libraries EL1 and EL03, an updated XSDIR file, a
README file describing the contents of this release and a SPECS file for use with MAKXSF to
convert the ascii data libraries into binary form. This release is intended to completely replace
previous RSICC releases DLC-105, DLC-181, DLC-189, and DLC-200 as well as the cross
sections previously included with CCC-200/MCNP4A, and will be updated as new libraries
become available.
The README file provides information regarding the data libraries contained in this
release. The XSDIR file is specific to this release and may not work with previous packages.
Currently the neutron data library ACTI (based on ENDF/B-VI, up through and including release
8) is the default library for continuous-energy neutron transport and the ENDF66 library (based
on ENDF/B-VI, up through and including release 6) is the default for nuclides not present on the
ACTI library. The libraries MCPLIB04 and EL03 are the default libraries for photoatomic and
electron transport respectively. SAB2002 is the default library for S( ) and LA150U is the
default library for photonuclear transport. More information on the data libraries contained in this
release is available in Appendix G of the MCNP5 manual or from the data team's web site at
http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/PROJECTS/DATA/nuclear/.

5. APPLICATION OF THE DATA

MCNP5DATA is for use with Version 5 and later of the MCNP transport code. Most
libraries will be compatible with MCNP version 4C, though some new physics and corresponding
data will not be utilized. This data library provides a comprehensive set of cross sections for a
wide range of radiation transport applications for the Monte Carlo code package
CCC-710/MCNP5. See Appendix G of the MCNP manual for information on the libraries and
how to select specific nuclides for use in MCNP.

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6. SOURCE AND SCOPE OF DATA
A wide variety of continuous-energy, discrete, multigroup, thermal and dosimetry neutron
data libraries are available in this release. The continuous-energy neutron data libraries available
include:
Continuous-energy Neutron Data Libraries
* actia and actib - ENDF/B-VI Release 8
* endf66(a-e) - ENDF/B-VI Release 6
* la150n: 150-MeV Neutron Library for MCNP
* uresa - ENDF/B-VI Release 4 with probability tables
* endf6dn - ENDF/B-VI Release 2 with delayed-neutron data
* endf62mt - multitemperature ENDF/B-VI Release 2
* endf60 - ENDF/B-VI Release 2
* newxs - LANL based evaluations
* rmccs - ENDF/B-V and LANL based evaluations
* rmccsa - ENDF/B-V and LANL based evaluations
* endf5p - ENDFB-V
* endf5u - ENDF/B-V
* misc5xs - Contains a number of previously released small libraries
* kidman - fission product evaluations
* 100xs - LANL based evaluations for a subset of isotopes up to 100 MeV
* endl92 - 1992 ENDL library from Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)
* endf5mt - Multitemperature data previously released as eprixs and u600k

Discrete Neutron Libraries

Discrete neutron cross sections are used with the DRXS input card in MCNP. The currently
supported discrete neutron libraries are:

* newxsd - discrete version of newxs

* drmccs - discrete version of rmccs and rmccsa
* dre5 - discrete version of endf5u and endf5p

Photoatomic Data Libraries

There are now four photoatomic transport data libraries; mcplib, mcplib02, mcplib03, and
mcplib04.

MCNP Multigroup Data Libraries

The multigroup neutron and photon library mgxsnp is provided for use with MCNP, and is based
primarily on ENDF/B-V evaluations

Photonuclear Data Libraries

We currently support one photonuclear library, la150u.

Thermal Neutron Data Libraries

S(alpha,beta) data are contained in the tmccs, therxs, and sab2002 libraries.

Electron Data Libraries

el and el03 are the electron transport libraries.

Dosimetry Data Libraries

531dos, 532dos, and llldos are the publically released dosimetry data libraries.

The data libraries, as distributed, are in ASCII, or type 1, format.

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7. DATA FORMAT AND COMPUTER
All data libraries are distributed in ASCII format in compressed files that can be used
with MCNP5 on all computer platforms supported by the code. The libraries are distributed on
CD in a GNU compressed Unix tar file and also in a compressed Windows file that will be
installed to personal computers by InstallShield.

8. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

Run times vary among computers.

9. REFERENCES
We refer you to the following web site for available documentation on each library:
http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/PROJECTS/DATA/nuclear/curre.htm. For users without web access,
the UNIX distribution CD contains a dump of this website in WinZIP file, WEBDOC.ZIP. A
browser is required to view these documents which are written in a variety of formats including
html, pdf and txt. Expand the files to your hard drive and open file web_doc/datahome.html; then
click on “Nuclear” in the blue bar near the top of the page.

10. CONTENTS OF LIBRARY

The files are distributed on CD-ROM for PC Windows and UNIX users. Documents
dumped from the developers' website are distributed in a WinZIP file.

11. DATE OF ABSTRACT

May 2003, revised November 2003.

KEYWORDS: NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS; GAMMA-RAY CROSS SECTIONS;

ELECTRON CROSS SECTIONS; MULTIGROUP CROSS
SECTIONS BASED ON ENDF/B; MCNP FORMAT;
WORKSTATION; MICROCOMPUTER

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