FLUKA

Infobox Software
name = FLUKA Particle Transport Code



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author = Alberto Fassò, Alfredo Ferrari, Johannes Ranft, Paola Sala et al.
developer = INFN, CERN
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latest release version = FLUKA 2008.3
latest release date = September 2008
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genre = Monte Carlo method, Particle physics
license = [http://www.fluka.org/License.shtml FLUKA user license]
website = [http://www.fluka.org/ www.fluka.org]

FLUKA (FLUktuierende KAskade) is a fully integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for the interaction and transport of particles and nuclei in matter. FLUKA has many applications in particle physics, high energy experimental physics and engineering, shielding, detector and telescope design, cosmic ray studies, dosimetry, medical physics and radiobiology.

FLUKA is available in form of a pre-compiled object library for a number of computer platforms. Source code is also available subject to the conditions specified in the [http://www.fluka.org/License.shtml FLUKA license] .

FLUKA is developed using the FORTRAN language. Under Linux the g77 compiler is at present necessary to build and run user programs.

A graphical user interface to run FLUKA named [http://www.fluka.org/flair Flair] has been developed using Python (programming language) and is available at the project's web-site.

The software is sponsored and copyrighted by INFN and CERN.

Early versions of the FLUKA hadronic event generator were implemented in other codes (in particular, GEANT3) and should be referenced as such (e.g. GEANT-FLUKA) and not as FLUKA. The hadronic FLUKA generator in GEANT3 is no more developed since 1993 and cannot be compared with the present stand-alone FLUKA.

External links

* [http://www.fluka.org/ Official site of FLUKA collaboration]