Benchmarking Heavy Ion Transport Codes FLUKA, HETC-HEDS MARS15, MCNPX, and PHITS

Ronningen, Reginald Martin¹  Remec, Igor²  Heilbronn, Lawrence H.³ 

[1]Michigan State University

[2]Oak Ridge National Laboratory

[3]University of Tennessee-Knoxville

关键词: radiation transport codes;    benchmark;    validation;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1082753
RP-ID  :  DOE/ER/41548
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1082753

学科分类：核物理和高能物理

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Powerful accelerators such as spallation neutron sources, muon-collider/neutrino facilities, and rare isotope beam facilities must be designed with the consideration that they handle the beam power reliably and safely, and they must be optimized to yield maximum performance relative to their design requirements. The simulation codes used for design purposes must produce reliable results. If not, component and facility designs can become costly, have limited lifetime and usefulness, and could even be unsafe. The objective of this proposal is to assess the performance of the currently available codes PHITS, FLUKA, MARS15, MCNPX, and HETC-HEDS that could be used for design simulations involving heavy ion transport. We plan to access their performance by performing simulations and comparing results against experimental data of benchmark quality. Quantitative knowledge of the biases and the uncertainties of the simulations is essential as this potentially impacts the safe, reliable and cost effective design of any future radioactive ion beam facility. Further benchmarking of heavy-ion transport codes was one of the actions recommended in the Report of the 2003 RIA R&D Workshop".