FLUKA (FLUktuierende KAskade) is a closed-source semi-integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for the interaction and transport of particles and nuclei in matter with limited scalability.[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]
FLUKA is available in the form of a pre-compiled object library for a number of computer platforms. Source code is available subject to the conditions specified in the FLUKA license. Alternatives to FLUKA are GEANT4, MCNP and PHITS.
FLUKA is developed using the FORTRAN language. Under Linux the g77 compiler is at present necessary to build and run user programs. A 64 bit version compiled in GNU Fortran has been available since 2011 (for version >4.5).
A graphical user interface to run FLUKA named Flair has been developed by CERN using Python (programming language) and is available at the project's web-site.
The software is sponsored and copyrighted by INFN and CERN.
On 16 December 2019 CERN released their own version of FLUKA.[11] Currently the CERN and INFN versions are developed and supported separately.[12]
Early versions of the FLUKA hadronic event generator were implemented in other codes (in particular, GEANT3) and should be referenced as such (e.g. GEANT-FLUKA) and not as FLUKA. The hadronic FLUKA generator in GEANT3 is no more developed since 1993 and cannot be compared with the present stand-alone FLUKA.
FLUKA software code is used by Epcard, which is a software program for simulating radiation exposure on airline flights.[13]
References
Release of FLUKA 4-0.1 The official CERN FLUKA website
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.
"FLUKA: a multi-particle transport code, CERN 2005-10 (2005), INFN/TC_05/11, SLAC-R-773". doi:10.5170/CERN-2005-010.
Battistoni, G.; Cerutti, F.; Fassò, A.; Ferrari, A.; Muraro, S.; Ranft, J.; Roesler, S.; Sala, P. R. (2007). "The FLUKA code: description and benchmarking". 896: 31–49. doi:10.1063/1.2720455. ISSN 0094-243X.
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. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2010.05.019. ISSN 0168-9002.
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. doi:10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00176-1. ISSN 0927-6505.
Roesler, S.; Heinrich, W.; Schraube, H. (2002). "Monte Carlo Calculation of the Radiation Field a Aircraft Altitudes". Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 98 (4): 367–388. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006728. ISSN 0144-8420.
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. 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186544. ISSN 1932-6203.
New FLUKA & Flair websites online The official CERN FLUKA website
Distribution and support of FLUKA and Flair by INFN [fluka-discuss] mailing list
Jeffrey R. Davis, Robert Johnson, Jan Stepanek - Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine (2008) - Page 228-230 (Google Books Link 2010)
External links
Official site of the CERN FLUKA
Official site of INFN FLUKA
FLUKA on the CERN bulletin
Physics software used to fight cancer
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