An Update about recent development of the PHITS code

Sihver, L.*; Sato, Tatsuhiko   ; Gustafsson, K.*; Mancusi, D.*; Iwase, Hiroshi*; Niita, Koji*; Nakashima, Hiroshi; Sakamoto, Yukio; Iwamoto, Yosuke   ; Matsuda, Norihiro  

We will first present the current status of the General-Purpose Particle and Heavy-Ion Transport code System (PHITS). In particular, we will describe benchmarking of calculated cross sections against measurements; we will introduce a relativistically covariant version of JQMD, called R-JQMD, that features an improved ground-state initialization algorithm, and we will show heavy-ion charge-changing cross sections simulated with R-JQMD and compare them to experimental data and to results predicted by the JQMD model.