Overview of particle and heavy ion transport code system PHITS
Journal article, 2015

A general purpose Monte Carlo Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System, PHITS, is being developed through the collaboration of several institutes in Japan and Europe. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency is responsible for managing the entire project. PHITS can deal with the transport of nearly all particles, including neutrons, protons, heavy ions, photons, and electrons, over wide energy ranges using various nuclear reaction models and data libraries. It is written in Fortran language and can be executed on almost all computers. All components of PHITS such as its source, executable and data-library files are assembled in one package and then distributed to many countries via the Research Organization for Information Science and Technology, the Data Bank of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's Nuclear Energy Agency, and the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center. More than 1500 researchers have been registered as PHITS users, and they apply the code to various research and development fields such as nuclear technology, accelerator design, medical physics, and cosmic-ray research. This paper briefly summarizes the physics models implemented in PHITS, and introduces some important functions useful for specific applications, such as an event generator mode and beam transport functions. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

THERAPY

MONTE-CARLO-SIMULATION

Nuclear Science & Technology

ENERGIES

Particle transport code

SPECTRA

PHITS

NEUTRONS

Nuclear data library

REFERENCE COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOMS

Monte Carlo

DOSE CONVERSION COEFFICIENTS

IMPROVEMENT

Nuclear reaction model

MICRODOSIMETRIC KINETIC-MODEL

PROTONS

Author

T. Sato

K. Niita

N. Matsuda

S. Hashimoto

Y. Iwamoto

T. Furuta

S. Noda

T. Ogawa

H. Iwase

H. Nakashima

T. Fukahori

K. Okumura

T. Kai

S. Chiba

Lembit Sihver

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Nuclear Engineering

Annals of Nuclear Energy

0306-4549 (ISSN) 1873-2100 (eISSN)

Vol. 82 110-115

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Other Physics Topics

DOI

10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.023

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10/7/2017