Applications of FLUKA Monte Carlo code for nuclear and accelerator physics

Battistoni, G.; Broggi, F.; Brügger, M.; Campanella, M.; Carboni, M.; Empl, A.; Fassó, A.; Gadioli, E.; Cerutti, F.; Ferrari, A.; Ferrari, A.; Lantz, M.W.; Mairani, A.; Margiotta, M.; Morone, M. C.; Muraro, S.; Parodi, Katia; Patera, V.; Pelliccioni, M.; Pinsky, L. S.; Ranft, J.; Roesler, S.; Rollet, S.; Sala, P.; Santana, Mario; Sarchiapone, L.; Sioli, M.; Smirnov, G.I.; Sommerer, Florian; Theis, Christian; Trovati, Stefania; Villari, R.; Vincke, Heinz; Vincke, Helmut; Vlachoudis, V.; Vollaire, J.; Zapp, Neil

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2011.04.028

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“…In a broader outlook, semi-empirical codes are still refined nowadays and systematically evaluated against existing data (NUCFRAG [108][109][110][111], EPACS [112][113][114], SPACS [115,116], FRACS [117]). Besides, progress in computing technology have made Monte Carlo simulation codes and event generators more appealing, often motivated by the problem of transport of ions in tissueequivalent materials (e.g., GEANT4 [118], PHITS [119][120][121], SHIELD-HIT [122], FLUKA [123]). These Monte Carlo codes rely on a combination of different physics implementations incorporating calculations of the nuclear cross sections, and their continuous improvements are of interest for a wide range of applications including Monte Carlo simulations of the design of CR instrumentation.…”

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Current status and desired precision of the isotopic production cross sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays: Li, Be, B, C, and N

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The accuracy of the current generation of cosmic-ray (CR) experiments, such as AMS-02, PAMELA, CALET, and ISS-CREAM, is now reaching ∼1-3% in a wide range in energy per nucleon from GeV/n to multi-TeV/n. Their correct interpretation could potentially lead to discoveries of new physics and subtle effects that were unthinkable just a decade ago. However, a major obstacle in doing so is the current uncertainty in the isotopic production cross sections that can be as high as 20-50% or even larger in some cases. While there is a recently reached consensus in the astrophysics community that new measurements of cross sections are desirable, no attempt to evaluate the importance of particular reaction channels and their required accuracy has been made yet. It is, however, clear that it is a huge work that requires an incremental approach. The goal of this study is to provide the ranking of the isotopic cross sections contributing to the production of the most astrophysically important CR Li, Be, B, C, and N species. In this paper, we (i) rank the reaction channels by their importance for a production of a particular isotope, (ii) provide comparisons plots between the models and data used, and (iii) evaluate a generic beam time necessary to reach a 3% precision in the production cross-sections pertinent to the AMS-02 experiment. This first roadmap may become a starting point in the planning of new measurement campaigns that could be carried out in several nuclear and/or particle physics facilities around the world. A comprehensive evaluation of other isotopes Z ≤ 30 will be a subject of follow-up studies.

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Current status and desired precision of the isotopic production cross sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays: Li, Be, B, C, and N

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“…For example, dpa = 3 means each atom in the material has been displaced from its site within the structural lattice of the material an average of 3 times. Thus, the dpa is a measure of the amount of radiation damage in irradiated material that is directly related with the total number of a compound crystallographicdefects in which an interstitials lie near the vacancy–Frenkel pairs N F . Finally, the calculation of N F was performed by using a Kinchin–Pease damage model later modified by Norgert, Robinson, and Torrens .…”

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N‐V‐related fluorescence of the monoenergetic high‐energy electron‐irradiated diamond nanoparticles

Remeš

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Krist

et al. 2015

Physica Status Solidi (a)

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Fluorescent diamond nanoparticles (FND) have recently been introduced as promising luminescent probes for bioimaging to compete with more commonly used fluorophores and quantum dots. In this work, we investigate the formation of NV color centers in diamond nanocrystallites using monoenergetic electrons. A large quantity (1.4 g) of FNDs has been irradiated in the cyclic relativistic electron accelerator (Microtron) with the surface charge up to 3C/cm 2 using collimated accelerated electrons extracted with monochromatic energies 6À25 MeV. The nitrogenvacancy (NV) color centers have been activated by the high temperature vacuum annealing followed by the oxidation and sonification to remove sp2 carbon from the surface and to form stable colloid solutions with the concentration 1 mg/ml and the electro-kinetic (zeta) potential about À35 mV. The steady state fluorescence spectra show that the fluorescence yield increases linearly with the surface charge irradiation.

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“…Ray air shower simulations up to 10 20 eV [12,13]. While FLUKA appears to be currently the most attractive code for TeV-PeV hadronic simulations with space astroparticle missions like DAMPE, there is a strong demand in the community of including state-of-the-art high-energy hadronic event generators, used in particular in CORSIKA [14], into the GEANT4 tool kit.…”

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TeV--PeV hadronic simulations with DAMPE

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Droz²,

Yue³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019)

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Cosmic ray research field has entered a brave new world of precise direct measurements in the multi-TeV energy domain thanks to the success of the newest space-borne instruments. DAMPE is a satellite astroparticle detector aimed at probing cosmic ray electrons and gamma rays from few GeV to 10 TeV and cosmic ray nuclei between 10 GeV and few hundred TeV with unprecedented energy resolution. It was successfully launched in December 2015, providing, in particular, the first direct observation of a break in a cosmic ray electron plus positron spectrum around 0.9 TeV. DAMPE presents a unique opportunity of directly measuring the cosmic ray spectrum and composition close to the knee region. However, one of the most challenging limitations on the precision of such measurement arises from the simulation of hadronic interactions in the detector. In spite of the utmost thick and finely segmented calorimeter onboard DAMPE, the cosmic ray proton and nuclei energy measurements still rely significantly on the hadronic Monte Carlo simulation. In this contribution, we discuss the challenges of the hadronic Monte Carlo detector simulation for TeV-PeV particles and review the existing solutions. We also present an in-house software tool which allows connecting the high-energy hadronic event generators, used in CORSIKA and implemented in the CRMC package, to the GEANT4 tool kit. Finally, we discuss preliminary simulation results with DAMPE setup based on this tool. Comparison with the alternative FLUKA simulation is presented as well.

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Applications of FLUKA Monte Carlo code for nuclear and accelerator physics

Cited by 27 publications

References 5 publications

Current status and desired precision of the isotopic production cross sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays: Li, Be, B, C, and N

Current status and desired precision of the isotopic production cross sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays: Li, Be, B, C, and N

N‐V‐related fluorescence of the monoenergetic high‐energy electron‐irradiated diamond nanoparticles

TeV--PeV hadronic simulations with DAMPE

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