Speaker
L. Pinsky
(UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON)
Description
The FLUKA Monte Carlo transport code is a well-known simulation tool in High Energy
Physics. FLUKA is a dynamic tool in the sense that it is being continually updated
and improved by the authors. Here we review the progresses achieved in the last
year on the physics models. From the point of view of hadronic physics, most of the
effort is still in the field of nucleus--nucleus interactions. The currently
available version of FLUKA already includes the internal capability to simulate
inelastic nuclear interactions beginning with lab kinetic energies of 100 MeV/A up
the the highest accessible energies by means of the DPMJET-II.5 event generator to
handle the interactions for >5 GeV/A and rQMD for energies below that. The new
developments concern, at high energy, the embedding of the DPMJET-III generator,
which represent a major change with respect to the DPMJET-II structure. This will
also allow to achieve a better consistency between the nucleus-nucleus section with
the original FLUKA model for hadron-nucleus collisions. Work is also in progress
to implenent a third event generator model based on the Master Boltzmann Equation
approach, in order to extend the energy capability from 100 MeV/A down to the
threshold for these reactions. In addition to these extended physics capabilities,
structural changes to the programs input and scoring capabilities are continually
being upgraded. In particular we want to mention the upgrades in the geometry
packages, now capable of reaching higher levels of abstraction. Work is also
proceeding to provide direct import into ROOT of the FLUKA output files for
analysis and to deploy a user-friendly GUI input interface.
Primary authors
A. Empl
(University of Houston)
A. Fasso
(SLAC)
A. Ferrari
(CERN & Universita' and INFN Milano)
A. Ottolenghi
(Universita' and INFN Pavia)
D. Scannicchio
(Universita' and INFN Pavia)
E. Gadioli
(Universita' and INFN Milano)
F. Ballarini
(Universita' and INFN Pavia)
F. Cerutti
(Universita' and INFN Milano)
G. Battistoni
(Universita' and INFN Milano)
G. SMIRNOV
(University of Houston, USA)
J. Ranft
(University of Leipzig)
K. LEE
(University of Houston, USA)
K. TSOULOU
(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
L. Pinsky
(UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON)
M V. Garzelli
(Univeristy and INFN, Milano, Italy)
M. CAMPANELLA
(INFN Milano, Italy)
M. CARBONI
(INFN Frascati, Italy)
M. PELLICCIONI
(INFN Frascati, Italy)
N. Zapp
(University of Houston)
P. Sala
(ETH Zurich & INFN Milan)
S. MURARO
(INFN Milano, Italy)
S. Roesler
(CERN)
T. RANCATI
(INFN Milano, Italy)
V. ANDERSON
(University of Houston, USA)
V. PARINI
(INFN Pavia, Italy)
V. Vlachoudis
(CERN)
