Coccetti, F. (2016) The Fermiac or Fermi’s Trolley. Il nuovo cimento C, 39 (2). pp. 1-8. ISSN 1826-9885
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Abstract
The Fermiac, known also as Fermi’s trolley or Monte Carlo trolley, is an analog computer used to determine the change in time of the neutron population in a nuclear device, via the Monte Carlo method. It was invented by Enrico Fermi and constructed by Percy King at Los Alamos in 1947, and used for about two years. A replica of the Fermiac was built at INFN mechanical workshops of Bologna in 2015, on behalf of the Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, thanks to the original drawings made available by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This reproduction of the Fermiac was put in use, and a simulation was developed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2020 16:10 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2020 16:10 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19293 |
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