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	Transport de neutrons et de particules par Monte Carlo	Conception de la protection radiologique
Domaine	Physique nucléaire	Physique nucléaire
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1949	1898
Auteur d'origine	Nicholas Metropolis, Stanislaw Ulam	Ernest Rutherford, Pierre Curie
Type	probabilistic computational method	engineering design methodology
Source fondatrice	Metropolis, N., & Ulam, S. (1949). The Monte Carlo Method. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 44(247), 335–341.	Cember, H., & Johnson, T. E. (2009). Introduction to Health Physics (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Alias	Monte Carlo simulation, stochastic transport, particle history method	shield analysis, attenuation design, dose reduction engineering
Apparentées	5	5
Résumé	Monte Carlo neutron and particle transport is a stochastic simulation method that tracks individual particle histories through matter, developed by Metropolis and Ulam in 1949 during the Manhattan Project. By sampling random numbers to determine collision locations, energy transfers, and scattering angles, it produces unbiased estimates of reaction rates, flux distributions, and detector responses without discretizing angle or energy variables.	Radiation shielding design is an engineering discipline that uses physics-based calculations and materials selection to reduce radiation exposure to acceptable levels, originating from Curie and Rutherford's early radiation studies in the 1890s. By combining attenuation theory, source characterization, and dose modeling, it determines material composition, thickness, and geometry to protect workers, the public, and sensitive equipment.