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 system Linux
Available in Fortran 77
Type Monte Carlo method, Particle physics
License FLUKA user license
Website www.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]

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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 2 3 Tsinganis A. (14 September 2022). "An overview of the FLUKA particle transport code and its graphical user interface Flair" (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; Empl, Anton; Mairani, Andrea; Mereghetti, Alessio; Ortega, Pablo Garcia; Ranft, Johannes; Roesler, Stefan; Sala, Paola R.; Vlachoudis, Vasilis; Smirnov, George (2015). "Overview of the FLUKA code". Annals of Nuclear Energy. 82: 10–18. Bibcode:2015AnNuE..82...10B. doi: 10.1016/j.anucene.2014.11.007 . ISSN   0306-4549.
  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. arXiv: 1002.4655 . Bibcode:2011NIMPA.626S.191B. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2010.05.019. ISSN   0168-9002. S2CID   119208962.
  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. arXiv: hep-ph/0107241 . Bibcode:2002APh....17..477B. doi:10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00176-1. ISSN   0927-6505. S2CID   204927907.
  8. ↑ Roesler, S.; Heinrich, W.; Schraube, H. (2002). "Monte Carlo Calculation of the Radiation Field at Aircraft Altitudes" (PDF). Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 98 (4): 367–388. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006728. ISSN   0144-8420. PMID   12120665.
  9. ↑ Battistoni, Giuseppe; Bauer, Julia; Boehlen, Till T.; Cerutti, Francesco; Chin, Mary P. W.; Dos Santos Augusto, Ricardo; Ferrari, Alfredo; Ortega, Pablo G.; Kozłowska, Wioletta; Magro, Giuseppe; Mairani, Andrea; Parodi, Katia; Sala, Paola R.; Schoofs, Philippe; Tessonnier, Thomas; Vlachoudis, Vasilis (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. PMC   4863153 . PMID   27242956.
  10. ↑ Zhang, Qinghui; Lee, Chaeyeong; Lee, Sangmin; Lee, Seung-Jae; Song, Hankyeol; Kim, Dae-Hyun; Cho, Sungkoo; Jo, Kwanghyun; Han, Youngyih; Chung, Yong Hyun; Kim, Jin Sung (2017). "Monte Carlo simulation of secondary neutron dose for scanning proton therapy using FLUKA". PLOS ONE. 12 (10) e0186544. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1286544L. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186544 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   5646843 . PMID   29045491.
  11. ↑ "A Monte Carlo code for ion beam therapy". CERN Document Server. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  12. ↑ Battistoni, Giuseppe; Broggi, Francesco; Brugger, Markus; Campanella, Mauro; Carboni, Massimo; Empl, Anton; Fassò, Alberto; Gadioli, Ettore; Cerutti, Francesco; Ferrari, Alfredo; Ferrari, Anna; Garzelli, Maria Vittoria; Lantz, Mattias; Mairani, Andrea; Margiotta, M. (1 October 2011). "The Application of the Monte Carlo Code FLUKA in Radiation Protection Studies for the Large Hadron Collider" (PDF). Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology. 2: 358–364. doi:10.15669/pnst.2.358. ISSN   2185-4823.
  13. ↑ Jeffrey R. Davis, Robert Johnson, Jan Stepanek - Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine (2008) - Page 228-230 (Google Books Link 2010)
  14. 1 2 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. Bibcode:2009NucTe.168..810R. doi:10.13182/NT09-A9310. PMC   2943388 . PMID   20865141.
  15. 1 2 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 167923. Bibcode:2023NIMPA104967923G. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2022.167923. S2CID   255262511.
  16. ↑ Fippel, Matthias; Soukup, Martin (2004). "A Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm for proton therapy" . Medical Physics. 31 (8): 2263–2273. Bibcode:2004MedPh..31.2263F. doi:10.1118/1.1769631. PMID   15377093.

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