About Cycles and Primaries

Running and Runtime Errors
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Hello FLUKA users

My name is Henrique. I have a degree in Physics and am working on the production of radioisotopes with particle accelerators (protons). I speak directly from Brazil and am a beginner user of this excellent tool for studying nuclear reactions.

If you can help me, I have two minor questions:

  1. What is the influence of the number of cycles in my simulations? When is it better to increase or decrease this number?

  2. I have been running my simulations with 50 million primaries up to 150 million. What else do these choices affect, in addition to the processing time?

Thank you very much.

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Welcome to the forum @h.barcellos,
May I recommend studying the materials in the recently concluded FLUKA course?
In particular, you may find this lecture to be very useful.
Best wishes.

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Dear Sunil

Thank you for your comments. I took the FLUKA course in 2020 and need to review some classes. I will also take a look at the 2024 classes that you recommended to me.

Greetings.