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 |
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Developer(s) | INFN, CERN |
Stable release | FLUKA 2021.2.0 / 18 May 2021 |
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. FLUKA has many applications in particle physics, high energy experimental physics and engineering, shielding, detector and telescope design, cosmic ray studies, dosimetry, medical physics, radiobiology. A recent line of development concerns hadron therapy.
It is the standard tool used in radiation protection studies in the CERN particle accelerator laboratory. FLUKA software code is used by Epcard, which is a software program for simulating radiation exposure on airline flights.
Comparison with other codes
MCNPX is slower than FLUKA.
Geant4 is slower than FLUKA.
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. Bibcode:2015AnNuE..82...10B. 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.
- 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.
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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)
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
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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