Tables for the Determination of the Lateral Shielding Requirements of High Energy Electron and Proton Accelerators

Neutron dose-equivalent rate transmission tables for the lateral shielding of high-energy (> 0.8 GeV) electron and proton beams have been calculated to assist a shield designer who needs realistic shielding data in a short time, and who may be required to readjust his results frequently as machine design is modified. These tables give the dose-equivalent rate transmitted normally to a particle beam through an average shielding material equivalent in nuclear properties to aluminum with varying concentrations of water, and through iron. Though designed for use in cylindrical geometries, they can be applied to point-source geometries as well.