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Distributions of secondary particles in proton and carbon-ion therapy: a comparison between GATE/Geant4 and FLUKA Monte Carlo codes by Robert, C, Dedes, G, Battistoni, G, Böhlen, T T, Buvat, I, Cerutti, F, Chin, M P W, Ferrari, A, Gueth, P, Kurz, C, Lestand, L, Mairani, A, Montarou, G, Nicolini, R, Ortega, P G, Parodi, K, Prezado, Y, Sala, P R, Sarrut, D, Testa, E

“…Monte Carlo simulations play a crucial role for in-vivo treatment monitoring based on PET and prompt gamma imaging in proton and carbon-ion therapies. The…”
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Noise evaluation of Compton camera imaging for proton therapy by Ortega, P G, Torres-Espallardo, I, Cerutti, F, Ferrari, A, Gillam, J E, Lacasta, C, Llosá, G, Oliver, J F, Sala, P R, Solevi, P, Rafecas, M

“…Compton Cameras emerged as an alternative for real-time dose monitoring techniques for Particle Therapy (PT), based on the detection of prompt-gammas. As a…”
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Experimental search for the “LSND anomaly” with the ICARUS detector in the CNGS neutrino beam by Antonello, M., Baibussinov, B., Benetti, P., Calligarich, E., Canci, N., Centro, S., Cesana, A., Cieślik, K., Cline, D. B., Cocco, A. G., Dabrowska, A., Dequal, D., Dermenev, A., Dolfini, R., Farnese, C., Fava, A., Ferrari, A., Fiorillo, G., Gibin, D., Gninenko, S., Guglielmi, A., Haranczyk, M., Holeczek, J., Ivashkin, A., Kirsanov, M., Kisiel, J., Kochanek, I., Lagoda, J., Mania, S., Menegolli, A., Meng, G., Montanari, C., Otwinowski, S., Piazzoli, A., Picchi, P., Pietropaolo, F., Plonski, P., Rappoldi, A., Raselli, G. L., Rossella, M., Rubbia, C., Sala, P. R., Scantamburlo, E., Scaramelli, A., Segreto, E., Sergiampietri, F., Stefan, D., Stepaniak, J., Sulej, R., Szarska, M., Terrani, M., Varanini, F., Ventura, S., Vignoli, C., Wang, H. G., Yang, X., Zalewska, A., Zaremba, K.

“…We report an early result from the ICARUS experiment on the search for a ν μ → ν e signal due to the LSND anomaly. The search was performed with the ICARUS…”
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Hadronic and electromagnetic fragmentation of ultrarelativistic heavy ions at LHC by Braun, H. H., Fassò, A., Ferrari, A., Jowett, J. M., Sala, P. R., Smirnov, G. I.

“…Reliable predictions of yields of nuclear fragments produced in electromagnetic dissociation and hadronic fragmentation of ion beams are of great practical…”
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Monte Carlo Latching Studies of Prompt-Gamma Detection During Hadrontherapy by Chin, M. P. W., Cerutti, F., Ferrari, A., Ortega, P. G., Sala, P. R.

“…Proton and carbon therapies of a human brain were simulated using FLUKA, with particular emphasis on treatment monitoring using the prompt gamma method where…”
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The atmospheric neutrino flux below 100 MeV: The FLUKA results by Battistoni, G., Ferrari, A., Montaruli, T., Sala, P.R.

“…We present here the FLUKA results on the atmospheric neutrino flux below 100 MeV, down to 10 MeV. Atmospheric neutrinos in this energy range can be detected by…”
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The FLUKA Code: Developments and Challenges for High Energy and Medical Applications by Böhlen, T.T., Cerutti, F., Chin, M.P.W., Fassò, A., Ferrari, A., Ortega, P.G., Mairani, A., Sala, P.R., Smirnov, G., Vlachoudis, V.

“…The FLUKA Monte Carlo code is used extensively at CERN for all beam-machine interactions, radioprotection calculations and facility design of forthcoming…”
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The FLUKA atmospheric neutrino flux calculation by Battistoni, G., Ferrari, A., Montaruli, T., Sala, P.R.

“…The 3-dimensional (3-D) calculation of the atmospheric neutrino flux by means of the FLUKA Monte Carlo model is here described in all details, starting from…”
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A phenomenological relative biological effectiveness approach for proton therapy based on an improved description of the mixed radiation field by Mairani, A, Dokic, I, Magro, G, Tessonnier, T, Bauer, J, Böhlen, T T, Ciocca, M, Ferrari, A, Sala, P R, Jäkel, O, Debus, J, Haberer, T, Abdollahi, A, Parodi, K

“…Proton therapy treatment planning systems (TPSs) are based on the assumption of a constant relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of 1.1 without taking into…”
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Biologically optimized helium ion plans: calculation approach and its in vitro validation by Mairani, A, Dokic, I, Magro, G, Tessonnier, T, Kamp, F, Carlson, D J, Ciocca, M, Cerutti, F, Sala, P R, Ferrari, A, Böhlen, T T, Jäkel, O, Parodi, K, Debus, J, Abdollahi, A, Haberer, T

“…Treatment planning studies on the biological effect of raster-scanned helium ion beams should be performed, together with their experimental verification,…”
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The fluka code for space applications: recent developments by Andersen, V., Ballarini, F., Battistoni, G., Campanella, M., Carboni, M., Cerutti, F., Empl, A., Fassò, A., Ferrari, A., Gadioli, E., Garzelli, M.V., Lee, K., Ottolenghi, A., Pelliccioni, M., Pinsky, L.S., Ranft, J., Roesler, S., Sala, P.R., Wilson, T.L.

“…The fluka Monte Carlo transport code is widely used for fundamental research, radioprotection and dosimetry, hybrid nuclear energy system and cosmic ray…”
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Human exposure to space radiation: role of primary and secondary particles by Trovati, S., Ballarini, F., Battistoni, G., Cerutti, F., Fassò, A., Ferrari, A., Gadioli, E., Garzelli, M. V., Mairani, A., Ottolenghi, A., Paretzke, H. G., Parini, V., Pelliccioni, M., Pinsky, L., Sala, P. R., Scannicchio, D., Zankl, M.

“…Human exposure to space radiation implies two kinds of risk, both stochastic and deterministic. Shielding optimisation therefore represents a crucial goal for…”
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Nuclear Reactions in Monte Carlo Codes by Ferrari, A., R. Sala (INVITED), P.

“…The physics foundations of hadronic interactions as implemented in most Monte Carlo codes are presented together with a few practical examples. The description…”
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The FLUKA code: New developments and application to 1 GeV/n iron beams by Aiginger, H., Andersen, V., Ballarini, F., Battistoni, G., Campanella, M., Carboni, M., Cerutti, F., Empl, A., Enghardt, W., Fassò, A., Ferrari, A., Gadioli, E., Garzelli, M.V., Lee, K., Ottolenghi, A., Parodi, K., Pelliccioni, M., Pinsky, L., Ranft, J., Roesler, S., Sala, P.R., Scannicchio, D., Smirnov, G., Sommerer, F., Wilson, T., Zapp, N.

“…The modeling of ion transport and interactions in matter is a subject of growing interest, driven by the continuous increase of possible application fields…”
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A Monte Carlo approach to study neutron and fragment emission in heavy-ion reactions by Garzelli, M.V., Sala, P.R., Ballarini, F., Battistoni, G., Cerutti, F., Ferrari, A., Gadioli, E., Ottolenghi, A., Pinsky, L.S., Ranft, J.

“…Quantum Molecular Dynamics models (QMD) are Monte Carlo approaches targeted at the description of nucleon–ion and ion–ion collisions. We have developed a QMD…”
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FLUKA and PENELOPE simulations of 10keV to 10MeV photons in LYSO and soft tissue by Chin, M.P.W., Böhlen, T.T., Fassò, A., Ferrari, A., Ortega, P.G., Sala, P.R.

“…Monte Carlo simulations of electromagnetic particle interactions and transport by FLUKA and PENELOPE were compared. 10keV to 10MeV incident photon beams…”
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Radiation transport calculations and simulations by Fassò, A., Ferrari, A., Sala, P. R.

“…This article is an introduction to the Monte Carlo method as used in particle transport. After a description at an elementary level of the mathematical basis…”
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A search for the analogue to Cherenkov radiation by high energy neutrinos at superluminal speeds in ICARUS by Antonello, M., Aprili, P., Baibussinov, B., Baldo Ceolin, M., Benetti, P., Calligarich, E., Canci, N., Carbonara, F., Centro, S., Cesana, A., Cieslik, K., Cline, D.B., Cocco, A.G., Dabrowska, A., Dequal, D., Dermenev, A., Dolfini, R., Farnese, C., Fava, A., Ferrari, A., Fiorillo, G., Gibin, D., Gigli Berzolari, A., Gninenko, S., Guglielmi, A., Haranczyk, M., Holeczek, J., Ivashkin, A., Kisiel, J., Kochanek, I., Lagoda, J., Mania, S., Mannocchi, G., Menegolli, A., Meng, G., Montanari, C., Otwinowski, S., Periale, L., Piazzoli, A., Picchi, P., Pietropaolo, F., Plonski, P., Rappoldi, A., Raselli, G.L., Rossella, M., Rubbia, C., Sala, P.R., Scantamburlo, E., Scaramelli, A., Segreto, E., Sergiampietri, F., Stefan, D., Stepaniak, J., Sulej, R., Szarska, M., Terrani, M., Varanini, F., Ventura, S., Vignoli, C., Wang, H., Yang, X., Zalewska, A., Zaremba, K., Cohen, A.

“…The OPERA Collaboration (2011) [1] has reported evidence of superluminal νμ propagation between CERN and the LNGS. Cohen and Glashow (2011) [2] argued that…”
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The FLUKA radiation transport code and its use for space problems by Ferrari, A, Ranft, J, Sala, P R

“…FLUKA is a multiparticle transport code capable of handling hadronic and electromagnetic showers up to very high energies (100 TeV), widely used for…”
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Extended calibration range for prompt photon emission in ion beam irradiation by Bellini, F., Boehlen, T.T., Chin, M.P.W., Collamati, F., De Lucia, E., Faccini, R., Ferrari, A., Lanza, L., Mancini-Terracciano, C., Marafini, M., Mattei, I., Morganti, S., Ortega, P.G., Patera, V., Piersanti, L., Russomando, A., Sala, P.R., Sarti, A., Sciubba, A., Solfaroli Camillocci, E., Voena, C.

“…Monitoring the dose delivered during proton and carbon ion therapy is still a matter of research. Among the possible solutions, several exploit the measurement…”
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