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Monte Carlo Particle Transport Methods: Neutron and Photon - gnssn

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IS<strong>and</strong> give a r<strong>and</strong>om sign (by the use of a third r<strong>and</strong>om number) to x':x =s-x+ 1.if p, ^0.5- 1.if p 3< 0,5The efficiency of this procedure is fairly high:exp( - 1/2) =-= 0,76Approximate Gaussian PDF sampling can be rctheorem: according to which the sum of a large n " it 1 j * .! •>distributed r<strong>and</strong>om variables (with finite variance) is t >'i i> >uiiis• j n lb i.the X 1variables are uniformly distributed on (0,1), then ih> a i. - : n I ,JKwith a variance ofV'12then x = Xf„ i x, is asymptotically (n -» 00 ) normally distributed with a residual expectedvalue ofna„ = an = -<strong>and</strong> a variance ofs„ = Vn-sTherefore, if samples from a normal distribution with a - 0, s ~ I (Equation 2.9) haveto be generated then the(2.10)rule is to be applied, with n -*

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