| 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 |
| Stable release | FLUKA 2021.2.0
/ 18 May 2021
[1] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | Fortran 77 |
| Type | Monte Carlo method, Particle physics |
| License | FLUKA user license |
| Website | www.fluka.org |
FLUKA (FLUktuierende KAskade) is a fully integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for the interaction and transport of particles and nuclei in matter. [2] [3] [4] [5] FLUKA has many applications in particle physics, high energy experimental physics and engineering, shielding, detector and telescope design, cosmic ray studies, [6] dosimetry, [7] medical physics, radiobiology. A recent line of development concerns hadron therapy. [8] [9]
It is the standard tool used in radiation protection studies in the CERN particle accelerator laboratory. [10] [11] FLUKA software code is used by Epcard, which is a software program for simulating radiation exposure on airline flights. [12]
Comparison with other codes
MCNPX is slower than FLUKA. [13] [14]
Geant4 is slower than FLUKA. [13] [14] [15]
References
- ^ The official FLUKA site: FLUKA home FLUKA Team
- ^ 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. doi: 10.1016/j.anucene.2014.11.007. ISSN 0306-4549.
- ^ 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 9789290832607.
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^ 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. Vol. 896. pp. 31–49.
doi:
10.1063/1.2720455.
ISSN
0094-243X.
{{ cite book}}:|journal=ignored ( help) - ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "A Monte Carlo code for ion beam therapy". CERN Document Server. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jeffrey R. Davis, Robert Johnson, Jan Stepanek - Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine (2008) - Page 228-230 (Google Books Link 2010)
- ^ a b 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. PMC 2943388. PMID 20865141.
- ^ a b 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. doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2022.167923. S2CID 255262511.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
- Würl, Matthias (30 May 2016). "3.1 The FLUKA Monte Carlo Code". Towards Offline PET Monitoring at a Cyclotron-Based Proton Therapy Facility: Experiments and Monte Carlo Simulations. Springer. pp. 17–19. ISBN 978-3-658-13168-5.
External links
- Official site of FLUKA collaboration
- FLUKA on the CERN bulletin
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