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 9 913-923

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies

DOI

10.1080/00223131.2013.814553

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Created

10/6/2017