Recent upgrade of the PHITS code and its applications

Sato, Tatsuhiko   ; Niita, Koji*; Matsuda, Norihiro  ; Hashimoto, Shintaro  ; Iwamoto, Yosuke   ; Iwase, Hiroshi*; Noda, Shusaku; Ogawa, Tatsuhiko   ; Nakashima, Hiroshi; Fukahori, Tokio  ; Okumura, Keisuke ; Chiba, Satoshi*; Furuta, Takuya*; Sihver, L.*

Recently, we released PHITS version 2.5, which has the following new features: (1) Incorporation of the latest intra-nuclear cascade model such as INCL 4.6, (2) Implementation of the statistical multi-fragmentation model and high-energy photo-nuclear reaction model, (3) Re-evaluation of the Kerma factors contained in the neutron nuclear data library based on JENDL-4.0, (4) Access to shared-memory parallelism using the OpenMP architecture, (5) Implementation of the uncertainty-estimation function on the basis of history and batch variances, (6) Improvement of the user support tools such as the installers for Windows and MacDetails of these new features will be presented at the meeting.