Coordinator: Profº Joaquim Teixeira de Assis
Description: The study of the application of Monte Carlo codes in experiments of imaging in Computed Tomography and in the determination of elementary compositions with the technique of X-ray Fluorescence has been the subject of several papers published recently and presented at international conferences. We have already been working on this topic with applications in the area of Materials and Archaeometry and we hope to increase these applications with collaborators that we already have partnership. O GP in COMPUTATIONAL MODELING of UERJ has been working in the field of applications of the Monte Carlo method in Computed Tomography as in X-Ray Fluorescence. We have carried out and approved articulated projects with the GP in PHYSICS / UERJ at FINEP and purchased equipment for shared use. We have a microtomographSkyscan 1174, equipment of XRF (ARTAX200 and 5 AMPTEK spectrometers with several anodes, as well as a Bruker D2 DRX). We have a joint participation in various works and co-orientations. The use of Monte Carlo XRMC, GEANT4 and MCNP codes helps to compare simulation and experimental results and to suggest modifications in these programs for better results. Through close collaboration with University of Sassari, where the XRMC code was developed, we hope to send professors and receive technical staff visits from there, to narrow this collaboration. We also look forward to collaborate closer with the Universities of Rome (Sassari), Italy; St. Petersburg, Russia; Lisbon and Évora, in Portugal, to compare simulated and experimental results in archaeological samples.