McStas: Past, present and future

Peter Kjær Willendrup; Emmanuel Farhi; Erik Bergbäck Knudsen; U. Filges; Kim Lefmann

doi:10.3233/JNR-130004

McStas: Past, present and future

Peter Kjær Willendrup, Emmanuel Farhi, Erik Bergbäck Knudsen, U. Filges, Kim Lefmann

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Abstract

The McStas neutron ray-tracing simulation package is a collaboration between Risø DTU, ILL, University of Copenhagen and the PSI. During its lifetime, McStas has evolved to become the world leading software in the area of neutron scattering simulations for instrument design, optimisation, virtual experiments. McStas is being actively used for the design-update of the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund. This paper includes an introduction to the McStas package, recent and ongoing simulation projects. Further, new features in releases McStas 1.12c and 2.0 are discussed.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Neutron Research
Volume	17
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	35-43
ISSN	1023-8166
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/JNR-130004
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Neutron
Instruments
Monte Carlo
Ray-tracing

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