Request for new material : Boron Carbide

[Zecolas]

Needed in simulations of neutron shielding inside the scattering chamber.

[marquezj]

Hi @Zecolas. Boron carbide is a highly absorbing material, which means the most important thing is the absorption, not the structure for the scattering. Because of that, it can be modeled as an unstructured solid material:

solid::B4C/2.52gcm3/B_is_0.95_B10_0.05_B11

(you can change the density and isotopic composition as needed)

That is one of the examples when you browse the NCrystal library:

https://github.com/mctools/ncrystal-notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/ncrystal1_basic_01_Introduction_and_Python_API.ipynb