Dear Fluka users
a respin, fluka2011.2.16, has been just released. This respin fixes
the following conditions:
a) a slight discontinuity around particle energies corresponding to
the threshold for delta production (eg around 50 MeV protons for
a delta threshold of 100 keV)
b) a crash when using PPSOUR for hadron-nucleus in the energy range
of PEANUT
c) nonsense results and crashes when using gases with possibly
incorrect pressure/density. In some conditions, like those experienced
by Mohammad Islam in his message "Fluka crashes for higher primaries
for heavy ion", the user could define a combination of density/pressure
for a gas which makes it out of the validity range
of the Sternheimer-Peierls general formula for the density effect for
gases. Very likely or the density (2.27E-4) or the pressure (1/50 atm)
is wrong in Mohammad input (Mohammad please let us know if this
supposition is true). Anyway a gas with that composition/density
/pressure is unmanageable from the point of view of the standard
Sterhneimer-Peierls treatment of the density effect in stopping power.
The conseuquences are potentially catastrophic with computed stopping
powers which can be ten orders of magnitude or more larger than real
ones. Now a protection is built-in stopping the code at initialization
time if a similar condition is detected. If such a gas do really exist,
the user can still run Fluka by providing manually sensible density
effect parameters by means of the STERNHEI input card: of course the
user takes full responsibility for the physical soundness of
such parameters
d) the incorrect use of HEAVYION beams which are actually
defined through the HI-PROPE card to be a p,n,d,3-H,3-He or 4-He
is now prevented. In such a case now the code stops. Please use
PROTON, NEUTRON, DEUTERON etc beams if you need one of these
instead of "cheating" the code.
e) the "smearing" of the energy at which Fluka switches from the
the internal models to Dpmjet for h-p and h-A collisions is now
activated by default: it was off by mistake. The transition occurs
gradually between 10 and 30 TeV lab energy
At minimum a) is changing the random number sequence (and very slightly
the results) hence all users are kindly invited to upgrade to the current
respin. Assistance/bug correction will be provided only for the
latest respin.
The FLUKA developer team
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