Recent developments and benchmarking of the PHITS code

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1320-1331

  Sihver, L ^a,b   Mancusi, D ^a   Sato, T ^c   Niita, K ^d   Iwase, H ^e   Iwamoto, Y ^c   Matsuda, N ^c   Nakashima, H ^c   Sakamoto, Y ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ROANOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c JAEA   (Japan)

^d RIST   (Japan)

^e GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heavy ions; HZE; Radiation shielding: radiation protection; Transport code: PHITS

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HEAVY IONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION SHIELDING; REACTION KINETICS;

ACCELERATOR-BASED MEASUREMENTS; PARTICLE RADIATION; TRANSPORT CODES;

CODES (STANDARDS);

EID: 34948829689     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.056     Document Type: Article

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