Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System, PHITS, version 2.52
Journal article, 2013
An upgraded version of the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System, PHITS2.52, was developed and released to the public. The new version has been greatly improved from the previously released version, PHITS2.24, in terms of not only the code itself but also the contents of its package, such as the attached data libraries. In the new version, a higher accuracy of simulation was achieved by implementing several latest nuclear reaction models. The reliability of the simulation was improved by modifying both the algorithms for the electron-, positron-, and photon-transport simulations and the procedure for calculating the statistical uncertainties of the tally results. Estimation of the time evolution of radioactivity became feasible by incorporating the activation calculation program DCHAIN-SP into the new package. The efficiency of the simulation was also improved as a result of the implementation of shared-memory parallelization and the optimization of several time-consuming algorithms. Furthermore, a number of new user-support tools and functions that help users to intuitively and effectively perform PHITS simulations were developed and incorporated. Due to these improvements, PHITS is now a more powerful tool for particle transport simulation applicable to various research and development fields, such as nuclear technology, accelerator design, medical physics, and cosmic-ray research.
PHITS
JENDL-4-0
DCHAIN-SP
INC-ELF
Monte Carlo
OpenMP
statistical multi-fragmentation model
Kurotama model
particle transport simulation
INCL4.6
Author
T. Sato
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
K. Niita
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology
N. Matsuda
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
S. Hashimoto
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Y. Iwamoto
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
S. Noda
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
T. Ogawa
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
H. Iwase
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
H. Nakashima
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
T. Fukahori
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
K. Okumura
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
T. Kai
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
S. Chiba
Tokyo Institute of Technology
T. Furuta
RIKEN
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Lembit Sihver
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Nuclear Engineering
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
0022-3131 (ISSN)
Vol. 50 9 913-923Subject Categories
Other Engineering and Technologies
DOI
10.1080/00223131.2013.814553