MCNP5 for proton radiography.

The developmental version of MCNP5 has recently been extended to provide for continuous-energy transport of high-energy protons. This enhancement involves the incorporation of several significant new physics models into the code. Multiple Coulomb scattering is treated with an advanced model that takes account of projectile and nuclear target form factors.

Towards a heavy-ion transport capability in the MARS15 code.

In order to meet the challenges of new accelerator and space projects and further improve modelling of radiation effects in microscopic objects, heavy-ion interaction and transport physics have been recently incorporated into the MARS15 Monte Carlo code. A brief description of new modules is given in comparison with experimental data.

Recent enhancements to the MARS15 code.

The MARS code is under continuous development and has recently undergone substantial improvements that further increase its reliability and predictive power in numerous shielding, accelerator, detector and space applications. The major developments and new features of the MARS15 (2004) version described in this paper concern an extended list of elementary particles and arbitrary heavy ions and their interaction cross sections, inclusive and exclusive nuclear event generators, module for modelling particle electromagnetic interactions, enhanced geometry and histogramming options, improved MAD-MARS Beam Line Builder, enhanced graphical user interface and an MPI-based parallelisation of the code.

CEM2k and LAQGSM codes as event generators for space-radiation-shielding and cosmic-ray-propagation applications.

The CEM2k and LAQGSM codes have been recently developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory to simulate nuclear reactions for a number of applications. We have benchmarked our codes against most available data measured at incident particle energies from 10 MeV to 800 GeV and have compared our results with predictions of other current models used by the nuclear community. Here, we present a brief description of our codes and show some illustrative results that testify that CEM2k and LAQGSM can be used as reliable event generators for space-radiation-shielding, cosmic-ray (CR) propagation, and other astrophysical applications.

Nuclear multifragmentation in nonextensive statistics: canonical formulation.

We apply the canonical quantum statistical model of nuclear multifragmentation generalized in the framework of recently proposed Tsallis nonextensive thermostatistics for the description of the nuclear multifragmentation process. The test calculation in the system with A = 197 nucleons shows strong modification of the "critical" behavior associated with the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition for small deviations from the conventional Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics.