reactorNuSpectrumGenerator
Allows user to specify different sources of reactor neutrino isotope fluxes calculations, weights, and energy range, and generates an output neutrino spectrum. Still a work in progress. Things to change are:
- Improve or give the user extrapolation options
- Include errors authors use in calculations. More difficult when data extracted from curves.
- Add power, core content data from real reactors
Usage:
python reactorNuSpectrumGeneratory.py < config file >
Explanation of config file
spectrum_settings
- nbins: number of bins in output spectrum
- normalized: either "GW" for neutrinos/sec using supplied power, "pdf" for normalization to integral of 1, or anything else for neutrinos/fission
- emin: minimum energy of output spectrum
- emax: maximum energy of output spectrum
data_sources
- For each isotope, filename to use from fluxData folder. Format of data is lines of "energy [in MeV], antineutrinos/fission". Comments start with a "#". If data does not cover requested (emin,emax) range, exponential extrapolation is done using five closest data points.
reactor_data
- type: "manual" currently, plan to put in example reactor data later
- power: power in GW
- fraction_u235: fraction of u235 in core, does not have to be normalized
- fraction_u238: fraction of u238 in core, does not have to be normalized
- fraction_pu239: fraction of pu239 in core, does not have to be normalized
- fraction_pu241: fraction of pu241 in core, does not have to be normalized
output_settings:
- format: either "text" or "root"
- output_name: name of the output file, with appropriate extension
Data references
- Hayes calculations: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02047
- Huber calculations: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.0687.pdf
- Klapdor Pu239 calculations: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.127
- Klapdor U235 calculations: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269382908978
- Mueller calculations: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.2663.pdf
- Avignone calculation: https://journals.aps.org/prc/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevC.22.594