USBSCW Error Propagation

Advanced Features and User Routines
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Hello,

I recently have been making use of the very convenient USBSCW command line tool that is included in fluka/bin. I was wondering, when adding several USRBINs with the same mesh geometry and everything, how is the uncertainty / error propagated? Is it added in quadrature, the maximum across the different inputs / cases, or something else? I couldn’t find documentation of it, though maybe I missed it. I could do a test case with a small number of bins, but at the same time there might be subtleties that could best be elucidated by an expert.

Thanks for your time and help,

Will

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Glad to hear that you like it! (me too).
You are right about the specific documentation lack, but you can find its source code in fluka/src/tools.
The error is added in quadrature.

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Ah perfect, thank you. It didn’t occur to me to check /src for the tools scripts, but on retrospect that makes perfect sense. And yeah USBSCW, has been invaluable for a project I’m doing with moving parts across multiple beam pulses! I wrote my own script at first for the plot.dat files, but this is way better.

Thanks for your time and help!