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In the field of nuclear reactor physics, transient phenomena are usually studied using deterministic or hybrids methods. These methods require many approximations, such as: geometry, time and energy discretizations, material homogenization…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Jaime Romero-Barrientos

The perturbation method is proposed to obtain the effective delayed neutron fraction (\b{eta}eff) of a cylindrical highly enriched uranium reactor. Based on the reactivity measurements with and without a sample at a designable position…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-15 Hao-Jun Zhou , Yan-Peng Yin , Xiao-Qiang Fan , Zheng-Hong Li , Yi-Kang Pu

The Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) is one of the six GEN-IV reactor designs. In the MSFR, the liquid fuel is the coolant, which moves throughout the primary circuit. This complex phenomenology requires multiphysics modeling. In the present…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Maximiliano Dalinger , Elia Merzari , Saya Lee , Casey Emler

We present a new approach to calculating time eigenvalues of the neutron transport operator (also known as $\alpha$ eigenvalues) by extending the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) to allow for non-uniform time steps. The new method, called…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Ethan Smith , Ilham Variansyah , Ryan McClarren

To overcome the problem of inefficient computing time and unreliable results in MCNP5 calculation, a two-step method is adopted to calculate the energy deposition of prompt gamma-rays in detectors for depleted uranium spherical shells under…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Jianguo Qin , Caifeng Lai , Rong Liu , Tonghua Zhu , Xinwei Zhang , Bangjiao Ye

OpenMC is an open-source Monte Carlo code with increasing relevance in criticality safety and reactor physics applications. While its validation has covered a broad range of systems, its performance in spent nuclear fuel storage scenarios…

Suprathermal fusion reactions, initiated by energetic particles slowing down and scattering in dense plasmas, can modify the burn dynamics at inertial confinement fusion (ICF) regimes. A 0D time-dependent Monte-Carlo code has been developed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Marcus Borscz , Thomas A. Mehlhorn , Patrick A. Burr , Igor Morozov , Sergey Pikuz

The precise calculation of alpha-induced neutron-emission ($\alpha$,n) reaction rates is fundamental to understanding nucleosynthesis in diverse stellar environments. This study investigates the nuclear reaction rates for various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Bhavay Luthra , N. J. Upadhyay

We use the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques to calculate the static structure function $S(q)$ of a one-component ion lattice and use it to calculate the thermal conductivity $\kappa$ of high-density solid matter expected in the neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Sajad Abbar , Joe Carlson , Huaiyu Duan , Sanjay Reddy

We propose a technique to effectively sample initial neutron and delayed neutron precursor particles for Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of typical off-critical reactor transients. The technique can be seen as an improvement, or alternative,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Ilham Variansyah , Ryan G. McClarren

Efficient Monte Carlo (MC) sampling of many-body systems with long-range electrostatics is often limited by the cost of per-move energy-difference evaluation under periodic boundary conditions. We present DMK-MC, an accelerated MC method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Xuanzhao Gao , Shidong Jiang , Jiuyang Liang , Qi Zhou

An improved formalism of the two-neutrino double-beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta$-decay) rate is presented, which takes into account the dependence of energy denominators on lepton energies via the Taylor expansion. Till now, only the leading…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-13 Fedor Šimkovic , Rastislav Dvornický , Dušan Štefánik , Amand Faessler

We report results of fully non-perturbative, Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) calculations for dilute neutron matter. The neutron-neutron interaction in the s channel is parameterized by the scattering length and the effective range. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-21 Gabriel Wlazlowski , Piotr Magierski

The nuclear physics input used to compute the Monte Carlo reaction rates and probability density functions that are tabulated in the second paper of this series (Paper II) is presented. Specifically, we publish the input files to the Monte…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Christian Iliadis , Richard Longland , Art Champagne , Alain Coc

We reexamine the kink-like parameterization of the deceleration parameter to derive constraints on the transition redshift from cosmic deceleration to acceleration. This is achieved using observational Hubble data, Type Ia Supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Simran Arora , P. K. Sahoo

In plasma edge simulations, kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) is often used to simulate neutral particles and estimate source terms. For large-sized reactors, like ITER and DEMO, high particle collision rates lead to a substantial computational cost…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhirui Tang , Emil Løvbak , Julian Koellermeier , Giovanni Samaey

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) with kinetic energies up to 300 neV can be stored in material or magnetic confinements for hundreds of seconds. This makes them a very useful tool for probing fundamental symmetries of nature, by searching for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 N. J. Ayres , E. Chanel , B. Clement , P. G. Harris , R. Picker , G. Pignol , W. Schreyer , G. Zsigmond

A kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method is used to study the structural properties and dynamics of a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones liquid around the glass transition temperature. This technique permits us to explore the potential energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Javier Hernandez-Rojas , David J. Wales

In plasma edge simulations, the behavior of neutral particles is often described by a Boltzmann--BGK equation. Solving this kinetic equation and estimating the moments of its solution are essential tasks, typically carried out using Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Zhirui Tang , Julian Koellermeier , Emil Løvbak , Giovanni Samaey

The Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (KDMC) method is a powerful tool for simulating neutral particles in fusion reactors. It is a hybrid fluid-kinetic method that is significantly faster than pure kinetic methods at the cost of a small bias…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Thijs Steel , Vince Maes , Giovanni Samaey
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