The FLUKA Code: Developments and Challenges for High Energy and Medical Applications

Journal Article · Sun Jun 15 04:00:00 EDT 2014 · Nuclear Data Sheets

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NDS.2014.07.049· OSTI ID:22436726

Böhlen, T. T.; Cerutti, F.; Chin, M. P.W. ^[1]; Fassò, A. ^[2]; Ortega, P. G. ^[1]; Mairani, A. ^[3]; Sala, P. R. ^[4]; Smirnov, G.; Vlachoudis, V. ^[1]

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1. European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
2. ELI Beamlines, Harfa Office Park Ceskomoravská 2420/15a, 190 93 Prague 9 (Czech Republic)
3. Unità di Fisica Medica, Fondazione CNAO, I-27100 Pavia (Italy)
4. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano (Italy)

The FLUKA Monte Carlo code is used extensively at CERN for all beam-machine interactions, radioprotection calculations and facility design of forthcoming projects. Such needs require the code to be consistently reliable over the entire energy range (from MeV to TeV) for all projectiles (full suite of elementary particles and heavy ions). Outside CERN, among various applications worldwide, FLUKA serves as a core tool for the HIT and CNAO hadron-therapy facilities in Europe. Therefore, medical applications further impose stringent requirements in terms of reliability and predictive power, which demands constant refinement of sophisticated nuclear models and continuous code improvement. Some of the latest developments implemented in FLUKA are presented in this paper, with particular emphasis on issues and concerns pertaining to CERN and medical applications.

• OSTI ID: 22436726
• Journal Information: Nuclear Data Sheets, Journal Name: Nuclear Data Sheets Vol. 120; ISSN NDTSBA; ISSN 0090-3752
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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