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Monte Carlo Methods to Simulate the Propagation of the Created Atomic/ Nuclear Particles from Underground Piezoelectric Rocks inside the Fractures before or during the Earthquakes
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: Received: 29 January 2023 / Approved: 30 January 2023 / Online: 30 January 2023 (07:00:25 CET)
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Bahari, A.; Mohammadi, S.; Shayan Shakib, N.; Benam, M.R.; Sajjadi, Z. Monte Carlo Methods to Simulate the Propagation of the Created Atomic/ Nuclear Particles from Underground Piezoelectric Rocks inside the Fractures before or during the Earthquakes. Preprints2023, 2023010543. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0543.v1.
Bahari, A.; Mohammadi, S.; Shayan Shakib, N.; Benam, M.R.; Sajjadi, Z. Monte Carlo Methods to Simulate the Propagation of the Created Atomic/ Nuclear Particles from Underground Piezoelectric Rocks inside the Fractures before or during the Earthquakes. Preprints 2023, 2023010543. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0543.v1.
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Bahari, A.; Mohammadi, S.; Shayan Shakib, N.; Benam, M.R.; Sajjadi, Z. Monte Carlo Methods to Simulate the Propagation of the Created Atomic/ Nuclear Particles from Underground Piezoelectric Rocks inside the Fractures before or during the Earthquakes. Preprints2023, 2023010543. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0543.v1.
Bahari, A.; Mohammadi, S.; Shayan Shakib, N.; Benam, M.R.; Sajjadi, Z. Monte Carlo Methods to Simulate the Propagation of the Created Atomic/ Nuclear Particles from Underground Piezoelectric Rocks inside the Fractures before or during the Earthquakes. Preprints 2023, 2023010543. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0543.v1.
Abstract
Up to now, many studies have been performed on particle radiations before or during earthquakes (EQs). In our previous study, with the help of piezoelectricity relationships and the elastic energy formula, the MCNPX simulation code was applied to find the amount of created atomic/ nuclear particles, the dominant interactions; and the energy of the particles for various sizes of quartz and granite blocks. In this study, using the MCNPX simulation code, we have estimated the flux of the particles (created from under-stressed granitic rocks) at different distances from the EQ hypocenter inside the fractures, filled with air, water, and CO2. It was found that inside a water-filled fracture, the particles do not show the flux far from the EQ hypocenter, but inside the gases like air and CO2 with the normal condition density, different types of particles can have a flux far from the source (more than a kilometer) and they might reach themselves to the surface in the case that the EQ hypocenter is very shallow (0- 5 km). However, for deep EQs, it seems that the most detected nuclear particles on the surface should pass via the vacuum-filled fractures and reach themselves to the surface. Moreover, it was concluded that the more density of the fracture’s filling fluid, the less distance that the particles can have a flux.
Keywords
Monte Carlo method; Granite Rocks; Piezoelectricity; Earthquake; Particles radiation
Subject
PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Nuclear & High Energy Physics
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