The physics of the FLUKA code: Recent developments

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1339-1349

  Ballarini, F ^a   Battistoni, G ^b   Brugger, M ^c   Campanella, M ^b   Carboni, M ^j   Cerutti, F ^c   Empl, A ^d   Fasso A ^e   Ferrari, A ^c   Gadioli, E ^b   Garzelli, M V ^b   Lantz, M ^b   Mairani, A ^a   Mostacci, A ^j   Muraro, S ^b   Ottolenghi, A ^a   Patera, V ^j   Pelliccioni, M ^j   Pinsky, L ^d   Ranft, J ^f   Roesler, S ^c   Sala, P R ^b   Scannicchio, D ^a   Smirnov, G ^c,g   Sommerer, F ^c,h   Trovati, S ^a   Villari, R ^j   Vlachoudis, V ^c   Wilson, T ⁱ   Zapp, N ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^g JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^h TU WIEN   (Austria)

ⁱ NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^j INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Heavy ion interactions; Ionization energy loss; Monte Carlo simulations; Space dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HEAVY IONS; IONIZATION;

HEAVY-ION INTERACTIONS; IONIZATION ENERGY LOSS; SPACE DOSIMETRY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 34948843635     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.031     Document Type: Article

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