SAMMY Users' Group

Frequently Asked Questions related to the code's versions

Question 1: What is the latest publicly-released version of SAMMY?

Answer 1: The latest version of SAMMY is version M6-Beta, a "pre-release" of version M6. Version M6-Beta was released in January 2002, without updated documentation. Version M6, for which updated documentation will also be released, will probably become available in late 2002 or early 2003.

Question 2: What are the main differences with previous versions of the code?

Answer 2: Version M6-Beta may be used for incident charged-particle channels. (The previous release (M5) was useful for exit charged-particle channels.) There are other changes which will be documented later.

Question 3: How does M5 differ from earlier releases?

Answer 3: New features of M5 are detailed in the Introduction to Revision 5 of the SAMMY users' guide. In brief, the main new features are:

(1) The capability to generate Coulomb penetrabilities and shift factors, so that charged particles can be used either in final states or as the incident particle.

(2) Modernization of the code's structure, resulting in increased computation speed.

(3) Improved treatment of the Unresolved-Resonance Region.

(4) Bondarenko averaging.

(5) Compliance with new ENDF formats for File 2 (Reich-Moore resonance parameters).

(6) Generalization of the RPI resolution function.