Software:FLUKA

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FLUKA Particle Transport Code
Original author(s)Alberto Fassò, Alfredo Ferrari, Johannes Ranft, Paola Sala. Contributing authors: G.Battistoni, F.Cerutti, M.Chin, A.Empl, M.V.Garzelli, M.Lantz, A.Mairani, S.Muraro, V.Patera, S.Roesler, G.Smirnov, F.Sommerer, V. Vlachoudis
Developer(s)INFN, CERN
Initial release1960s[1]
Stable release
FLUKA 2021.2.0 / 18 May 2021[2]
Operating systemLinux
Available inFortran 77
TypeMonte Carlo method, Particle physics
LicenseFLUKA user license
Websitewww.fluka.org

FLUKA (an acronym for Fluktuierende Kaskade) is a fully integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for the interaction and transport of particles and nuclei in matter.[3][4][5][6] FLUKA has many applications in particle physics, high energy experimental physics and engineering, shielding, detector and telescope design, cosmic ray studies,[7] dosimetry,[8] medical physics, radiobiology. A recent line of development concerns hadron therapy.[9][10] As of 2022 FLUKA allowed simulation of interactions of photons with energy 100 eV and above.[1]

It is the standard tool used in radiation protection studies in the CERN particle accelerator laboratory.[11][12] FLUKA software code is used by Epcard, which is a software program for simulating radiation exposure on airline flights.[13]

The first version of FLUKA was developed in the 1960s by Johannes Ranft. FLUKA makes use of combinatorial geometry.[1]

Comparison with other codes

MCNPX is slower than FLUKA.[14][15]

Geant4 is slower than FLUKA.[14][15][16]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tsinganis A. (14 September 2022). "An overview of the FLUKA particle transport code and its graphical user interface Flair" (PDF). https://indico.cern.ch/event/1088396/attachments/2508104/4310222/Academic_Training_FLUKA.pdf. 
  2. ↑ The official FLUKA site: FLUKA home FLUKA Team
  3. ↑ Battistoni, Giuseppe; Boehlen, Till; Cerutti, Francesco; Chin, Pik Wai; Esposito, Luigi Salvatore; Fassò, Alberto; Ferrari, Alfredo; Lechner, Anton et al. (2015). "Overview of the FLUKA code". Annals of Nuclear Energy 82: 10–18. doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2014.11.007. ISSN 0306-4549. Bibcode: 2015AnNuE..82...10B. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1249650. 
  4. ↑ Fassò, A.; Ferrari, A.; Ranft, Johannes; Sala, Paola R. (2005). FLUKA: a multi-particle transport code, CERN 2005-10 (2005), INFN/TC_05/11, SLAC-R-773. CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs. doi:10.5170/CERN-2005-010. ISBN 978-92-9083-260-7. 
  5. ↑ Battistoni, G.; Cerutti, F.; Fassò, A.; Ferrari, A.; Muraro, S.; Ranft, J.; Roesler, S.; Sala, P. R. (2007). "The FLUKA code: description and benchmarking". AIP Conference Proceedings 896: 31–49. doi:10.1063/1.2720455. ISSN 0094-243X. 
  6. ↑ Battistoni, Giuseppe; Margiotta, Annarita; Muraro, Silvia; Sioli, Maximiliano (2011). "FLUKA as a new high energy cosmic ray generator". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 626-627: S191–S192. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2010.05.019. ISSN 0168-9002. Bibcode: 2011NIMPA.626S.191B. 
  7. ↑ Battistoni, G.; Ferrari, A.; Montaruli, T.; Sala, P.R. (2002). "Comparison of the FLUKA calculations with CAPRICE94 data on muons in atmosphere". Astroparticle Physics 17 (4): 477–488. doi:10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00176-1. ISSN 0927-6505. Bibcode: 2002APh....17..477B. 
  8. ↑ Roesler, S.; Heinrich, W.; Schraube, H. (2002). "Monte Carlo Calculation of the Radiation Field at Aircraft Altitudes". Radiation Protection Dosimetry 98 (4): 367–388. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006728. ISSN 0144-8420. PMID 12120665. https://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getdoc/slac-pub-8968.pdf. 
  9. ↑ Battistoni, Giuseppe; Bauer, Julia; Boehlen, Till T.; Cerutti, Francesco; Chin, Mary P. W.; Dos Santos Augusto, Ricardo; Ferrari, Alfredo; Ortega, Pablo G. et al. (2016). "The FLUKA Code: An Accurate Simulation Tool for Particle Therapy". Frontiers in Oncology 6: 116. doi:10.3389/fonc.2016.00116. ISSN 2234-943X. PMID 27242956. 
  10. ↑ Zhang, Qinghui; Lee, Chaeyeong; Lee, Sangmin; Lee, Seung-Jae; Song, Hankyeol; Kim, Dae-Hyun; Cho, Sungkoo; Jo, Kwanghyun et al. (2017). "Monte Carlo simulation of secondary neutron dose for scanning proton therapy using FLUKA". PLOS ONE 12 (10). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186544. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 29045491. Bibcode: 2017PLoSO..1286544L. 
  11. ↑ "A Monte Carlo code for ion beam therapy". https://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2012/20/News%20Articles/1447488?ln=en. 
  12. ↑ Battistoni, Giuseppe; Broggi, Francesco; Brugger, Markus; Campanella, Mauro; Carboni, Massimo; Empl, Anton; Fassò, Alberto; Gadioli, Ettore et al. (2011-10-01). "The Application of the Monte Carlo Code FLUKA in Radiation Protection Studies for the Large Hadron Collider" (in en). Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology 2: 358–364. doi:10.15669/pnst.2.358. ISSN 2185-4823. https://www.aesj.net/document/pnst002/358-364.pdf. 
  13. ↑ Jeffrey R. Davis, Robert Johnson, Jan Stepanek - Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine (2008) - Page 228-230 (Google Books Link 2010)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Randeniya, S. D.; Taddei, P. J.; Newhauser, W. D.; Yepes, P. (2009). "Intercomparision of Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Codes MCNPX, GEANT4, and FLUKA for Simulating Proton Radiotherapy of the Eye". Nuclear Technology 168 (3): 810–814. doi:10.13182/NT09-A9310. PMID 20865141. Bibcode: 2009NucTe.168..810R. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Gloster, Colin Paul (2023). "Comment on "Gamma-ray spectroscopy using angular distribution of Compton scattering" [Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 1031 (2022) 166502"]. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 1049. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2022.167923. Bibcode: 2023NIMPA104967923G. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gRnKcPqbl4hv. 
  16. ↑ Fippel, Matthias; Soukup, Martin (2004). "A Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm for proton therapy". Medical Physics 31 (8): 2263–2273. doi:10.1118/1.1769631. PMID 15377093. Bibcode: 2004MedPh..31.2263F. https://aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1118/1.1769631. 

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