PENELOPE 2001 - A Code System for Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport

Workshop Proceedings, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 5-7 November 2001

ISBN : 92-64-18475-9
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Radiation is used in many applications of modern technology. Its proper handling requires competent knowledge of the basic physical laws governing its interaction with matter. To ensure its safe use, appropriate tools for predicting radiation fields and doses, as well as pertinent regulations, are required.

One area of radiation physics that has received much attention concerns electron-photon transport in matter. PENELOPE is a modern, general-purpose Monte Carlo tool for simulating the transport of electrons and photons, which is applicable for arbitrary materials and in a wide energy range. PENELOPE provides quantitative guidance for many practical situations and techniques, including electron and x-ray spectroscopies, electron microscopy and microanalysis, biophysics, dosimetry, medical diagnostics and radiotherapy, and radiation damage and shielding.

These proceedings contain the teaching notes of a recent workshop/training course on PENELOPE, with a detailed description of the physics, numerical algorithms and structure of the code system.