arXiv:1207.5076nucl-ex
Current status of MCNP6 as a simulation tool useful for space and accelerator applications
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Abstract
For the past several years, a major effort has been undertaken at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop the transport code MCNP6, the latest LANL Monte-Carlo transport code representing a merger and improvement of MCNP5 and MCNPX. We emphasize a description of the latest developments of MCNP6 at higher energies to improve its reliability in calculating rare-isotope production, high-energy cumulative particle production, and a gamut of reactions important for space-radiation shielding, cosmic-ray propagation, and accelerator applications. We present several examples of validation and verification of MCNP6 compared to a wide variety of intermediate- and high-energy experimental data on reactions induced by photons, mesons, nucleons, and nuclei at energies from tens of MeV to about 1 TeV/nucleon, and compare to results from other modern simulation tools.
https://mcnp.lanl.gov/ has been in development since at least 1957 (according to wikipedia) -- so 58 years, give or take. It looks like it might be even older than that, it looks like Enrico Fermi may have started it in 1947 (a note in the introduction of…
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