RSICC Home Page STOPOW88

RSICC CODE PACKAGE CCC-790

1.         NAME AND TITLE

STOPOW88 - Stopping Power of Fast Ions in Matter.

2.         CONTRIBUTORS

Dresden Technical University Mommsenstr. 13 Dresden, Germany through the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

3.         CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

Fortran 77 and C, PC and Mac (C00790MNYCP00).

4.         NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

STOPOW calculates a set of stopping power values and ranges of fast ions in matter for any materials. Furthermore STOPOW can calculate a set of values for one special auxiliary function (e.g. kinematic factors, track structure parameters, time of flight or correction factors in the stopping function). The user chooses the physical units for stopping powers and ranges and the energy range for calculations.

5.         METHOD OF SOLUTION

The program uses the method of ZIEGLER et al. with user-defined non-relativistic and relativistic corrections in the energy range up to 100 MeV/amu. For higher energies the treatment of AHLEN is used. The program calculates the stopping power and ranges for an energy grid with logarithmic equally-spaced steps. These values are given as arrays, printing tables or output files.

 

6.         RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

Ions from H up to super heavies and compound targets with up to 30 different atomic constituents may be considered. The target compound can also contain up to five sub-compounds. This means the target is 1 keV/amu - 10 GeV/amu. Maximum incident energy can easily be increased by increasing the storage area. The program gives reasonable values up to 100 GeV/amu, it has not been tested for higher energies. The program accepts all the elements up to uranium, and for the input of a special target element identification of the element by atomic number is all that is needed. Batch and interactive input is possible.

7.         TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

Problem dependent.

8.         COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

PC compatible or Mac.

9.         COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Executables are provided for Windows operating systems. Fortran and C compilers are required for Linux and Mac Operating Systems.

10.      REFERENCES

            10.a included documentation

J. Henniger, STOPOW88 README.DOC

            10.b background documentation

J. Henniger, B. Horlbeck, Preprint JINR 6-8-366, Dubna 1984.
J. Henniger et.al.,  Preprint JINR 6-84-598, Dubna 1984.

W. Enghardt, J. Henniger, The Implementation of a Universal Stopping Power Code to the ES-1055 Computer, ZfK-584(1986)132.

11.      CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

The package includes source, data, executables for Windows OS and sample input and output files.

12.      DATE OF ABSTRACT

February 2012.

KEYWORDS:     GAMMA RAY HEATING