Data for paper "Designing a Boron Nitride Polyethylene Composite for Shielding Neutrons"

Data set for the paper "Designing a Boron Nitride Polyethylene Composite for Shielding Neutrons" published in Applied Physics Letters Materials (https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163377). In this paper, we explore the three different ways to distribute boron-10 within HDPE. These three configurations are called: (1) blended, (2) ideal layered, and (3) manufacturable. Refer to the manuscript for details of these configurations.

For the blended configuration, we have uploaded the feather files, which contain all the information that was tracked in Geant4. We have processed the ROOT files, outputted directly from Geant4, into feather files, which include the energy of each particle at the entry and exit surface of the shielding composite along with the particle type and interaction type. The feather files can be easily read into Python using pandas:

pd.read_feather(filename)

The feather files are labeled as "blended_B10enrich_seed1_processed_*.ftr". Each feather file contains information from ~10 ROOT files. The key information from these feather files, such as the number of neutrons and gammas exiting the shielding composite and effective dose ratio, is saved in a pickle file, called "blended_B10enrich_binned_seed1_compressed.pickle". The pickle files can be read into Python using:

with open(filename, 'rb') as pickle_file:
dictionary = pickle.load(pickle_file)

For the ideal layered configuration, there are ~100 feather files that are available upon request. The corresponding pickle files for the ideal layered configuration are uploaded, see "layered_B10enrich_binned_compressed.pickle", which can be read into Python using the code provided above. 

For the manufacturable configuration, there are ~236 feather files that are ~2 GB each. To reduce the number of files uploaded to this repository, we have only uploaded the pickle files for this configuration (see "manufacturable_B10enrich_binned_compressed_*.pickle").

Please contact the authors if you have additional questions (Alisha Vira, [e-mail], or Phillip First, [e-mail]).