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calculating the NR spectrum resulting from neutron-capture cascades.
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[JOSS Review] [JOSS Paper] Discuss whether software being compared to is open source. #86

Closed nuclearGoblin closed 2 years ago

nuclearGoblin commented 2 years ago

From the review thread:

In the State of the Field section it would be beneficial to mention that Genat4 is open source software and to clarify if FIFRELIN is open source or not.

I don't know whether FIFRELIN is open-source or not and couldn't find any kind of download from a quick search (and can't currently access the reference provided for it). Pinging @villaa as he probably knows.

villaa commented 2 years ago

From the review thread:

In the State of the Field section it would be beneficial to mention that Genat4 is open source software and to clarify if FIFRELIN is open source or not.

I don't know whether FIFRELIN is open-source or not and couldn't find any kind of download from a quick search (and can't currently access the reference provided for it). Pinging @villaa as he probably knows.

@gerudo7 I don't think FIFRELIN is open source, or, at least it's very hard to get your hands on (I tried). I can ask an author of one of the papers that uses it. I would suggest we just mention and cite FIFRELIN as we already have and focus our main comparison with the well-known open-source Geant4 package.

Also FIFRELIN wasn't originally designed to do exactly what we're doing, it was a nuclear evaporation code that has been modified and now some groups are using it to investigate nuclear recoils after capture from heavy and intermediate nuclei and we are currently focusing on light nuclei.

villaa commented 2 years ago

Did this while writing up comparison with G4 in PR #98