Abstract
This study investigates the radiation streaming through the personnel access maze designed for the Taiwan Photon Source, with special interest in the characteristics of radiation fields along the labyrinth and the comparison of different estimation methods. The effect of maze orientation with respect to the beam direction has also been examined in detail. The FLUKA Monte Carlo code was used to simulate the radiation production and transport for a beam loss occurring near a typical three-legged maze. In addition, we have also tested three factorized approximation formulae for the neutron and gamma-ray attenuation in our maze design. It was found that Cossairt's expression fits better and can predict satisfactory results for the neutron attenuation along the maze. We accordingly proposed a set of fitting parameters used with Cossairt's formulae for estimating the gamma-ray attenuation in labyrinths for high-energy electron accelerators. The information presented here will be valuable for our further design revisions and may be useful to those performing similar studies. © 2010 Health Physics Society.