Comparison of Shielding Data for 400 MeV/u Carbon Ion Beams
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Shielding data are necessary for the architectural planning of ion accelerator facilities. In the present case the main radiation component is neutron radiation. For the architectural planning in advance it is necessary to give a rough cost quotation for the shielding measures. In an early stage of a project rapid methods for the calculation of shielding thicknesses are required. Line-of-sight (LOS) models are used for this purpose. In this work parameters of line-of-sight models of various authors and groups are used [1, 2, 3] for a comparison of an experiment performed in the framework of the CONRAD measurement campaign carried out at GSI [4].
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