Recent enhancements to the MARS15 code

N V Mokhov; K K Gudima; C C James; M A Kostin; S G Mashnik; E Ng; J F Ostiguy; I L Rakhno; A J Sierk; S I Striganov

doi:10.1093/rpd/nci106

Recent enhancements to the MARS15 code

Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2005;116(1-4 Pt 2):99-103. doi: 10.1093/rpd/nci106.

Authors

N V Mokhov¹, K K Gudima, C C James, M A Kostin, S G Mashnik, E Ng, J F Ostiguy, I L Rakhno, A J Sierk, S I Striganov

Affiliation

¹ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS 220, Batavia, IL 60510-0500, USA. mokhov@fnal.gov

PMID: 16604606
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci106

Abstract

The MARS code is under continuous development and has recently undergone substantial improvements that further increase its reliability and predictive power in numerous shielding, accelerator, detector and space applications. The major developments and new features of the MARS15 (2004) version described in this paper concern an extended list of elementary particles and arbitrary heavy ions and their interaction cross sections, inclusive and exclusive nuclear event generators, module for modelling particle electromagnetic interactions, enhanced geometry and histogramming options, improved MAD-MARS Beam Line Builder, enhanced graphical user interface and an MPI-based parallelisation of the code.

Publication types

Evaluation Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Computer Simulation
Computer-Aided Design
Models, Statistical*
Monte Carlo Method*
Radiation Dosage
Radiation Protection / instrumentation
Radiation Protection / methods*
Radiometry / methods*
Scattering, Radiation
Software Design*
Software Validation*
Software*
User-Computer Interface