https://github.com/niess/pumas-materials
Materials for the PUMAS library
https://github.com/niess/pumas-materials
backward monte-carlo muon tau transport
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Materials for the PUMAS library
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/niess/pumas-materials
- Owner: niess
- License: lgpl-3.0
- Created: 2017-05-11T22:48:24.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-09-14T13:19:15.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-01T19:14:23.802Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: backward, monte-carlo, muon, tau, transport
- Language: Python
- Homepage: http://niess.github.io/pumas/
- Size: 8.16 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: COPYING.LESSER
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README
# Materials data for the PUMAS library
( **S**emi **A**nalytical **MU**ons -or taus- **P**ropagation, *backwards* )
## Description
This is a compilation of materials data for the
[PUMAS](http://niess.github.io/pumas/index.html) library. It contains two type
of files:
* **M**aterial **D**escription **F**iles (**MDF**), located under the
[mdf/elements](mdf/elements) and [mdf/materials](mdf/materials) directories.
These files are coded in XML. The tags specific to MDFs are described in the
[PUMAS
documentation](https://pumas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/materials-description-files/).
_The MDFs provided under [mdf/elements](mdf/elements) are incomplete since
they do not define any material. They are provided as samples of atomic
element entries._
* Stopping power tables are provided in the [dedx](dedx) directory. These tables
have been generated with the PUMAS library. For muons one can also use the
tables provided online by the
[PDG](https://pdg.lbl.gov/2020/AtomicNuclearProperties/index.html). However,
the latter are less accurate than PUMAS ones at high energy due to
improvements on the cross-sections of radiative processes (see e.g. [Sandrock
_et
al._](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1690/1/012005)).
## Usage
In order to use the MDF with PUMAS please refer to the [PUMAS
documentation](https://pumas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
_The stopping power tables are not needed anymore since PUMAS v1.1. They are
self-generated from the MDF at initialisation._
## License
The PUMAS library is under the **GNU LGPLv3** license. See the provided
`LICENSE` and `COPYING.LESSER` files.