FLUKA
Collaboration Meeting
G.Battistoni
Jul 10th 2010
today’s meeting (formal presentations)
Giuseppe:
Alfredo:
Vasilis:
Introduction
Work for the next FLUKA release
Advanced FLUKA course
Geometry editor for FLUKA
C.R. application developments
Max Sioli:
Francesco B.:SIT
Mary Chin:
From ENDF to P ENDF for FLUKA
Hannes:
DPMJET and LHC data
Larry:
News from Houston
IP and agreements
Agreement and license to Siemens
successfully accomplished
To be discussed:
• Achievement of goals for 2010
• Plans for 2011
• Papers
• Conferences
The FLUKA international Collaboration
M.Brugger, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, S. Roesler, G. Smirnov, C. Theis, S. Trovati, Hei. Vinke,
Hel. Vincke, V.Vlachoudis CERN
A. Fassò, J. Vollaire SLAC, USA
J. Ranft Univ. of Siegen, Germany
G. Battistoni, F. Broggi, M. Campanella, E. Gadioli, A. Mairani, S. Muraro, P.R. Sala
INFN & Univ. Milano, Italy
L. Sarchiapone INFN Legnaro, Italy
M. Carboni, C. D’Ambrosio, A. Ferrari, V. Patera, M. Pelliccioni, R. Villari INFN Frascati,
Italy
M.C. Morone INFN & Univ. Roma II, Italy
A. Margiotta, M. Sioli INFN & Univ. Bologna, Italy
K. Parodi, F. Sommerer HIT, Heidelberg, Germany
A. Empl, L. Pinsky Univ. of Houston, USA
?, NASA-Houston, USA
S. Rollet ARC Seibersdorf Research, Austria
M. Lantz Sweden
TO BE WELL DEFINED FOR 2011
5
Main goals for 2010
• Code development
• Tools development
• Main events:
– Beginner Course (Venezuela)
– Workshop+Advanced Course (Portugal)
• INFN part: new proposal after FLUKA2
• Fundamental conferences
• Collaboration papers
Short course at CNAO (Pavia)
• 3 full days
• 7 students
• Teachers: G.B, A. Mairani, S. Muraro
Responsabilities
Code
Test of
developm new
ent
releases
Softw are
Tools
Document
ation
FLUKA
(manuals,
Courses
examples,
etc.)
Battistoni
Developm
Common
ent,
paper
Help Desk
maintenan
productio
ce of
n
Distribute
CR Physics
Broggi
Brugger
Campanella
Carboni
Cerutti
Empl
Fassò
Ferrari Alf
Ferrari Annagood w ill
Gadioli
Garzelli
Lantz
interest
interest
interest
Lee
Mairani
Margiotta
CR Physics
Morone
Muraro
CR Physics
Parodi
Patera
TPS
Developm
ent and
Maintenan
ce of w eb
services
Compilers
and
Managem
porting on
ent
different
platforms
Responsabilities
Pelliccioni
Radioprotection
Pinsky
Ranft
dpmjet
Reddell
Roesler
Rollet
interest
interest
CR, RP, microdos.
Sala
Sarchiapone
Sioli
CR Physics
Smirnov
Sommerer
Theis
Trovati
Villari
Vincke Helm.
Vincke Heinz
Vlachoudis
Vollaire
~19
low NRJ photon
>19
~9
>14
~20
13
>12
>10
6
10
6
So far in 2010
Succ. downloads:
requests to be evaluated:
Users cancellations:
Source requests:
User updates:
249
157
3
12
3
Totoal no. of questions/answers in fluka-discuss:
425
Situation of 2010 conferences
Worshop at CERN on Life Science applications: We succeeded in having
reports containing FLUKA
MCNEG: (Katia)
Talk at Satif (Paola)
The Monte Carlo code FLUKA
in Ion Therapy: Status & Outlook
G. Battistoni
on behalf of the FLUKA collaboration
PHYSICS FOR HEALTH IN EUROPE WORKSHOP
(Towards a European roadmap for using physics tools in the development
of diagnostics techniques and new cancer therapies)
2-4 February 2010
MonteCarlo benchmarking: validation
and progress
• T.T.Boehlen, M.Brugger, F.Cerutti, A.Fassò, A.Ferrari,
M.V. Garzelli, E.Lebbos, A.Mairani, S. Roesler, P.R.Sala,
M.Santana-Leitner, G.Smirnov, V.Vlachoudis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
INFN, Milan, Italy
SLAC
Granada U. and INFN
SATIF10, CERN
Other FLUKA related talks at Satif
Activation and neutronics studies for the CERN n_TOF facility with
the FLUKA Monte Carlo code LEBBOS, Elias
Shielding aspects of the new nELBE photo-neutron source
FERRARI, Anna
Radiation Protection Aspects of the SPES facility at LNL
SARCHIAPONE, Lucia
Shielding and activation calculations for a 3-10 PW ELI high intensity
laser facility FERRARI, Anna
Activation studies for a beta-beam Decay Ring (DR): residual dose rates
during maintenance and airborne activity. Ms. TROVATI, Stefania
Papers
We are not yet producing collaboration papers
Andrea Mairani et al.:
“The FLUKA Monte Carlo code coupled with the local effect
model for biological calculations in carbon ion therapy”
Accepted in PMB!!!
Recent issues
Status of FLUKA_VMC problem
a) FLUKA_VMC has been limited to Alice
b) After a painful delay, a technical meeting has been dedicated to examine
bugs in FLUKA_VMC
HARP paper
a) A CERN preprint appeared: benchmark of FLUKA and GEANT4 to HARP
data
b) Moreover a technical error was done!
c) Requirements to the users in License ignored
d) Art. 8 of agreement ignored
e) CERN ignored our complaints