Conference Program (Tentative)
* Number in parentheses after Technical indicates number of parallel sessions.
** Technical Tour will be held on Friday, October 22.
FLUKA Tutorial
Date:
Sunday, Oct 17, 2010
Time: 14:10 - 17:30 3 hour 20 minute.
FLUKA is a fully integrated particle physics Monte Carlo simulation package. It allows the detailed calculation of hadronic and electromagnetic cascades in matter including interactions and transport of heavy ions. FLUKA is used for a wide range of applications, such as high energy experimental physics, accelerator and detector design, activation and shielding studies, dosimetry, cosmic ray studies as well as medical physics and radio-biology.
The Tutorial gives an overview of the capabilities of the code illustrated with examples of applications. It will furthermore focus on the basic steps to run a simulation. They include installation of the program, the structure of the input file, the creation of geometries, the main input parameters as well as scoring of physical quantities and displaying the results. All steps make use of FLAIR, a user-friendly interface to set up the input file, run FLUKA and postprocess its output and will be demonstrated online to the participants.
The Tutorial addresses users at beginner level and aims at providing the basic material to run own simple problems. The participants will receive a CD with the FLUKA package including FLAIR, detailed documentation and further reading. The lecturers will be available throughout the conference to provide individual advice for participants who would like to repeat the examples or run problems on their own Laptops. Using FLUKA requires Linux as operating system including the g77 compiler.
PHITS Tutorial
Date: Thursday, Oct 21, 2010
Time: 14:00 - 17:00 3hour
PHITS (Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System) is a very useful support tool when designing shielding of accelerator facilities, and for research activities in the fields radiation therapy, space science, transmutation, and basic nuclear and particle physics, incl. interaction and transport phenomena of particles and heavy ions.
PHITS can be run on a Windows operating system with a user friendly interface called “PHITS Station”. PHITS can calculate a wide variety of physical quantities of importance in applications within physics, engineering and medical science. The number of quantities are also continually increasing based on the wishes and requirements of the users. In addition to the user friendly interface, PHITS has also capability to create 2D and 3D drawings. This will visually support the user when creating complicated geometries. 2D plot of the calculation results can be checked even during the execution of a calculation.
The tutorial will begin with a one hour presentation, which will give an overview of PHITS and its abilities and applications, followed by a 30 min presentation of some typical application fields. Finally, hands-on workshops for both beginners and experienced users will be held for about 1.5 hours. If you can obtain PHITS in advance from RIST (for Japanese), or OECD/NEA (for non Japanese), we will be pleased to assist you to install and activate the code. We will also be happy to help and respond to various problems sent to us in advance via e-mail to PHITS Office.
PHITS Home page URL: http://phits.jaea.go.jp/index.html
