Publications & Co

Commercial licenses Reminder: “standard” FLUKA commercial license approved by

CERN and INFN legal offices “Standard” is for the template, monetary conditions negotiated

case by case depending on the extent of the application etc In 2014: One license signed and paid Two under finalization (negotiation done) One initiated with positive feedback One “commercial fee” received for the last fluka courseMany thanks to the CERN Technology Transfer office for active assistance Money should be accumulated and preferentially used for

manpower. (beware of admin offices..)15 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting 2

Collaborations on space applications CERN – CEA – ONERA collaboration, mainly on neutron albedo

(Alfredo correct me if I’m wrong.) CEA == Commissariat a’ l’energie atomique et aux energies

renouvelables ONERA == Centre francais de recherché Aerospatiale

Possible INFN-CERN-Thales-ESA Collaboration about simulations on shielding for space missions, including in-beam tests of shielding materials. If approved, may get money to pay an “Assegno di ricerca”, please let me know if you know somebody that could be interested.

15 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting 3

Common activities (..again..) It has been said many times: this collaboration should be an

opportunity to collaborate, on development, dissemination, and on common areas of application

New (and old..) activities, planned publications… should be announced to the collaboration so that interested members can participate (doing real work…)

How? Tried with regular phone meetings, slowly died (mostly my fault) Collaboration meetings are a good exchange moments, but they are

too rare Proposal: Web interface where people should post their “abstracts” for

activities /papers /conferences etc Two FSC members in charge of bookkeeping and sharing (myself and

Andrea M) A good opportunity to keep in touch

415 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting

elog https://pcfluka.mi.infn.it:8081

15 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting 5

Access with username/password (will insert everybody if adopted. Try it with guest / flukaguest )

Automatic e-mail to selected victims and/or to all those interested Every user can add a “new” Activity/paper/conference in an old or new category,

write an abstract an/or attach files/documents

Elog “new entry”

15 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting 6

Please let me know if you “like” it , so that we can adopt as soon as possible ( happy new year!)

Still some customization to do

Publications (..again..) Quoting Stefan « I think that we (as FSC) see only a tiny (?) subset of

publications that we should see. In this regard I suggest to emphasize that review by the FSC (or announcement of work to the collaboration) is not to penalize the authors but rather that it is to the benefit of the quality and consistency of their work and the work of the collaboration. >>

Please forward. Not only the ones of common interest If we adpt elog (or similar) it should help

715 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting

FLUKA standard references We had problems with the two usual fluka references being not on

peer-rewieved journals. Temporary patch with the Nuclear Data proceedings on Nuclear

Data Tables, however not fully representative Will be substituted with the proceedings fof MC2013, to be

published in Annuals of Nuclear Energy AND : proposal to issue the updated FLUKA manual as CERN and

INFN report, with all collaborators names.

15 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting 8

Ongoing / suggested papers Neutrinos. Waiting for last code developments (Mattias, Paola,

George, Giuseppe) Prompt Gammas. Waiting for Paola’s parts (many contributors

here) Bragg peaks. Waiting for Alfredo’s parts (Andrea, Till, Alfredo…) Speed optimization etc for PET/prompt photons (Cristina, ?)

Cosmics? MuTeV? Neutrons? This is badly needed, there are more and more papers

around doing our benchmarking on neutron production. (Alberto?) ..

15 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting 9

Mailing lists

Reminder: for the collaboration membersfluka-collaboration@cern.ch

Fluka-discuss Lately: many “unsubscribe” requests and many “too basic” questions Proposed “how-to” for posts, useless if many users do not read the

documentation? Implemented: instructions and “push button” for unsubscribe on web-site –

works Proposals:

Migrate to cern e-groups provides better search in archive Does not reduce mail flow Needsnew procedure for sem-automatic subscription

Change from mail list to forum Better by-topic organizations No spam to users Needs somebody who implements the forum, keeping full delivery to a

set of persons to be defined, some way for (semi) automatic subscription , etc

15 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting 11

Web site

Ahi ahi ahi

15 Dec 2014 FLUKA coll. meeting 12

new fluka site.. We could not get the needed manpower, so we still have the old

website May get some help from the CERN EN-ICE group, that already

prepared websites for other groups in the EN department. First contact through Roberto Losito, got positive impression, needs follow-up in January.

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