Release of FLUKA 4-3.2

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Dear FLUKA users,

It is our pleasure to announce that a new minor release of the FLUKA code, version 4-3.2, has been issued and can be downloaded from the Official CERN FLUKA website.

See the release notes at the bottom of this message for a detailed account of all novelties.

For consistency, please update to the latest version of Flair

Please note that low-energy neutron libraries, previously downloaded for enabling point-wise interactions, do not need to be downloaded again.

With our kindest regards,

The FLUKA developer team at CERN and Collaborating Institutes

=== Fluka-4.3.2 ===

PHYSICS IMPROVEMENTS:

  • The hitherto missing decay products of 11Be have been added, thus addressing the issue raised in this forum thread.

  • The reaction cross section for proton on B has been extended below 1 MeV, thus addressing the 5th item in this forum thread.

TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENTS:

  • C++ header files are now provided for the FLUKA commons.

  • The maximum number of heavy secondaries emitted during nuclear evaporation has been increased to 120, in order to accommodate a large (yet physical) number of heavy secondaries observed during a rare nuclear interaction between heavy nuclei which led to a crash in previous versions of the code.

  • The FLUKA manual features newly formatted tables and several typo and error corrections.

BUG FIXES:

  • The code is now aligned with DPMJET v19.3.5, fixing a rare crash due to a slightly mismatching value of the nuclear mass unit.

  • A logic error which allowed elastic recoils (and in general recoils with A and Z equal to those of the target nucleus) to mistakenly contribute to RESNUCLEi scoring in the region where they originate has been rectified.

  • A rare numerical precision error which led to a slight inaccuracy when determining the azimuthal-angle bin in cylindrical USRBIN for particles traveling along the x axis (and eventually to a crash, kindly reported by BNL colleagues) has been fixed.

  • An underflow in the ionization fluctuation module, which manifested as a zeroing out of ionization losses for charged particles in very dilute gases, has been resolved.

  • The energy deposition quenching issue for biased runs raised in this forum thread has been corrected, thus superseding the temporary solutions proposed therein.

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