Abstract. NJOY is a well respected code for nuclear data processing throughout the world. It was first publicly released in 1977 as a successor to MINX and has continuously improved its capabilities ever since. The latest release of NJOY is NJOY2012 and was released in December 2012 with its latest update coming in February 2015.A new effort has begun at Los Alamos National Laboratory to ensure that NJOY remains a useful nuclear data processing code for the next generation of data processing needs. The result of this effort will be NJOY21, a new code for processing nuclear data and interacting with a variety of nuclear data files.
The moment-preserving method, demonstrated as a viable alternative to condensed history for electrons, is extended to protons. Given the generality and the flexibility of the method, a discrete Coulomb scattering and discrete impactionization differential cross-section library for protons was readily developed and existing Geant4 electron discrete process and model classes were extended to make use of the new proton library. It is shown that levels of efficiency and accuracy similar to those demonstrated for electrons are obtainable for protons in straight-ahead, energy-loss problems. However, in problems with deflection, agreement is strongly dependent on the proton energy. That is, good agreement was observed in the few MeV range, while unsatisfactory agreement was observed in problems with proton energies above 100-MeV.
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